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Kitagawa Utamaro

No. 5 (go), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

c. 1798/1800
Color woodblock print; oban
38.7 × 26.3 cm (15.2 × 10.4 in)

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