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Kitagawa Utamaro

Turning a Shamisen (Shamisen no nejime), from the series "Chanting to Shamisen by Young Women of Today (Tosei musume joruri)"

c. 1804/06
Color woodblock print; oban
35.9 × 24.4 cm (14.1 × 9.6 in)

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