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Kitagawa Utamaro

Woman Reading a Letter, from the series Ten Classes of Women's Physiognomy (Fujo ninso juppon) (Fumi yomu onna)

c. 1792/93
Color woodblock print; oban
39.2 × 26 cm (15.4 × 10.2 in)

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