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Kitagawa Utamaro

Hour of the Ox [2am] (Ushi no koku), from the series "The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)"

c. 1794
Color woodblock print; oban
37.6 × 24.3 cm (14.8 × 9.6 in)

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