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Kitagawa Utamaro

The joruri, Nure tsubame negura no karakasa, from the series Joruri libretti (Joruri-bon) (Nure tsubame negura no karakasa, Osome, Hisamatsu)

c. 1804/06
Color woodblock print; oban
39 × 27 cm (15.4 × 10.6 in)

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