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Kitagawa Utamaro

忠臣蔵八段目|Two Tori-oi, or Itinerant Women Musicians of the Eta Class

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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