Women Preparing Sashimi, Edo period (1615?1868), 1806?20, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 15 x 10 in. (38. 1 x 25. 4 cm), Prints, Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753? ?1806), Utamaro expanded the scope of the bijin-ga, prints of beautiful women, by removing the traditional idealizing constraints of the genre and placing beautiful women in the context of ordinary life. Among the themes he explored in this broadening of his subject matter were the activities of the kitchen