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Utagawa Toyokuni I

The Ninth Month (Ku gatsu), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu junikagetsu)"

c. 1793
Color woodblock print; chuban
26.4 × 19.1 cm (10.4 × 7.5 in)

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