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Kitagawa Utamaro

Obvious Love (Arawaruru koi), from the series "Anthology of Poems: The Love Section (Kasen koi no bu)"

c. 1793/94
Color woodblock print; oban
38.8 × 26.2 cm (15.3 × 10.3 in)

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