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Kitagawa Utamaro

Performance of a Trained Monkey, from an illustrated poetry anthology entitled "The Young God Ebisu (Waka Ebisu)"

1789
Color woodblock print; page from an album
25.6 × 38 cm (10.1 × 15 in)

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