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Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Snake (Mi): Nitan Shiro, from the series "Heroes for the Twelve Animals of the Zodiac (Buyu mitate junishi)"

c. 1840
Color woodblock print; oban
63.1 × 12.2 cm (24.8 × 4.8 in)

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