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Utagawa Kunisada

Woman Leaving a Bath House (from the series Pictures from Otsu)

c. mid 1820s
color woodblock print

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The image of a horse emerging from a gourd in the upper-right corner alludes to the story of the Daoist immortal Chokaro. It was a popular subject of otsu-e folk paintings.

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