Kitagawa Utamaro

Mother and Child at Dusk (Oyako yugure), from the series "Three Evening Pleasure of the Floating World (Ukiyo san seki)"

c. 1800
Color woodblock print; naga-oban
51.5 × 23.5 cm (20.3 × 9.3 in)

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