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Kitagawa Utamaro

A Low Class Prostitute (Gun [teppo]), from the series “Five Shades of Ink in the Northern Quarter" ("Hokkoku goshiki-zumi")

c. 1794/95
Color woodblock print; oban
37.9 × 25.1 cm (14.9 × 9.9 in)

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