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Kitagawa Utamaro

Yosooi of the Matsubaya, from the series Selections from Six Houses in Yoshiwara (Seiro rokkasen) (Matsubaya Yosooi)

c. 1801/02
Color woodblock print; oban
37.6 × 24.5 cm (14.8 × 9.6 in)

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