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Kitagawa Utamaro

Messenger with a Letter, from the series "Elegant Five-needled Pine (Furyu goyo no matsu)"

c. 1797/98
Color woodblock print; oban
38.7 × 25.9 cm (15.2 × 10.2 in)

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