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Kitagawa Utamaro

Shell-Matching Game, from the illustrated book "Gifts from the Ebb Tide (Shiohi no tsuto)"

1789
Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from book
23.9 × 37.8 cm (9.4 × 14.9 in)

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