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Kitagawa Utamaro

Hour of the Dragon (Tatsu no koku), from the series "Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)"

c. 1794
Color woodblock print; oban
38.1 × 25.4 cm (15 × 10 in)

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