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Kitagawa Utamaro

Elegant Pleasures: The Scent of Flowers, right (Furyu hana no ka asobi, jo)

c. 1783
Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban diptych
38.1 × 25.4 cm (15 × 10 in)

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