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Kitagawa Utamaro

Evening Cool on the Verandah (Ensaki no yusuzumi): Genre scenes with kyoka poems, in aiban format (Kyoka-iri aiban fuzoku zu)

c. 1788/90
Color woodblock print; aiban
31.7 × 22.2 cm (12.5 × 8.7 in)

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