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Kitagawa Utamaro

High-Ranked Courtesan, from the series Five Shades of Ink in the Northern Quarter (Hokkoku goshiki-zumi) (Oiran)

c. 1794/95
Color woodblock print; oban
36.2 × 25.6 cm (14.3 × 10.1 in)

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