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Kitagawa Utamaro

Hour of the Sheep [2 pm] (hitsuji no koku), from the series “Sundial of Young Women" ("Musume hi-dokei")

c. 1794/95
Color woodblock print; oban
38.4 × 25.9 cm (15.1 × 10.2 in)

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