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Kitagawa Utamaro

喜多川歌麿画　「青楼仁和嘉女芸者　茶せん売　黒木売　さいもん」|Three Niwaka Performers, Chasenuri, Kurokiri, and Saimon (Tea-whisk Seller, Firewood Seller, Shrine Festival Perfomer), from the “Geisha of the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival” (Seiro Niwaka Onna Geisha)

ca. 1794
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
38.1 × 24.8 cm (15 × 9.8 in)

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