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Kitagawa Utamaro

The Chushingura Drama Parodied by Famous Beauties: A Set of Twelve Prints (Komei bijin mitate Chushingura, junimai tsuzuki)

c. 1794/95
Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych

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