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Kitagawa Utamaro

Northern Quarter (Hokkoku), from the series "Three Amusements of Contemporary Beauties (Tosei bijin sanyu)"

c. 1800
Color woodblock print; naga-oban
75 × 23.5 cm (29.5 × 9.3 in)

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