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Utagawa Hiroshige

Kewaizaka no Shosho cutting her hair to become a nun, from the series "Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue)"

c. 1843/47
Color woodblock print; oban
36.5 × 24.8 cm (14.4 × 9.8 in)

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