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Kitagawa Utamaro

The Poet Sojo Henjo, from the series "Modern Children as the Six Immortal Poets (Tosei kodomo rokkasen)"

c. 1804/05
Color woodblock print; oban
37.7 × 25.5 cm (14.8 × 10 in)

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