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Kitagawa Utamaro

Cloth-Strecher, from the series "Twelve Types of Women's Handicraft (Fujin tewaza juni ko)"

c. 1798/99
Color woodblock print; oban
35.9 × 24.8 cm (14.1 × 9.8 in)

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