{"product_id":"kitagawa-utamaro-rikiya-and-konami-from-the-series-a-program-with-music-about-loving-couples-ongyoku-1798-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal","title":"Kitagawa Utamaro - Rikiya and Konami, from the series A Program with Music about Loving Couples (Ongyoku - 1798 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal","description":"\u003ch1\u003eKitagawa Utamaro - Rikiya and Konami, from the series A Program with Music about Loving Couples (Ongyoku - 1798 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis design reproduces Kitagawa Utamaro's 1798 Ukiyo-e woodblock print of Rikiya and Konami, a standing man and a kneeling woman caught in a quiet, intimate moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eVisual Elements \u0026amp; Composition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe print is built on a vertical rectangle. A standing man in a cream and brown robe fills the upper field, while a woman in an orange kimono kneels below him, adjusting his sash. A sword and a scroll rest on the floor, anchoring the lower part of the composition. The palette is restrained: warm grey paper, cream, tan brown, coral red and black. A vertical title cartouche carries the series title, 音曲比翼の番組, and the artist's signature, 哥麿画, which reads \"painted by Utamaro.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMeaning \u0026amp; Symbolism\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe series title, A Program with Music about Loving Couples (Ongyoku), frames the scene as a musical and romantic narrative. The sword and scroll speak to the samurai and literary life of Edo-period Japan, while the woman's tending of the man's sash signals closeness and devotion. Utamaro's delicate linework and expressive character studies make the pair's bond the centre of the print, and the work shows the \"floating world\" of late eighteenth-century pleasure quarters, where romance, music and leisure were the prized subjects of Ukiyo-e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy It Suits a Sticker\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA kiss-cut sticker is cut to its own outline, so the figures and their surrounding forms can be followed edge to edge rather than boxed in a frame. The sticker carries the print's intimacy onto a small, personal surface, where it can be seen up close, the way the original prints were meant to be held and studied.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Sticker Space","offers":[{"title":"2\" × 2\" \/ Transparent","offer_id":48290814427354,"sku":"TSS-STICK-KTGTMR-2X2-179","price":2.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2\" × 2\" \/ White","offer_id":48290814460122,"sku":"TSS-STICK-KTGTMR-2X2-180","price":2.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3\" × 3\" \/ Transparent","offer_id":48290814492890,"sku":"TSS-STICK-KTGTMR-3X3-179","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3\" × 3\" \/ White","offer_id":48290814525658,"sku":"TSS-STICK-KTGTMR-3X3-180","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4\" × 4\" \/ Transparent","offer_id":48290814558426,"sku":"TSS-STICK-KTGTMR-4X4-179","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4\" × 4\" \/ White","offer_id":48290814591194,"sku":"TSS-STICK-KTGTMR-4X4-180","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6\" × 6\" \/ Transparent","offer_id":48290814623962,"sku":"TSS-STICK-KTGTMR-6X6-179","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6\" × 6\" \/ White","offer_id":48290814656730,"sku":"TSS-STICK-KTGTMR-6X6-180","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0493\/3949\/8646\/files\/kitagawa-utamaro-rikiya-and-konami-from-the-series-a-program-with-music-about-loving-couples-ongyoku-1798-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal-TSS-STICK-KTGTMR-2X2-180-alt-3.webp?v=1785687741","url":"https:\/\/thestickerspace.com\/products\/kitagawa-utamaro-rikiya-and-konami-from-the-series-a-program-with-music-about-loving-couples-ongyoku-1798-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal","provider":"The Sticker Space","version":"1.0","type":"link"}