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Kitagawa Utamaro

Hour of the Tiger [4 am], Courtesan (Tora no koku, keisei), from the series "Customs of Beauties Around the Clock (Fuzoku bijin tokei)"

c. 1798/1800
Color woodblock print; oban
38.5 × 25.3 cm (15.2 × 10 in)

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