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Kitagawa Utamaro

On top and beneath Ryogoku Bridge (Ryogokubashi no ue, shita)

c. 1795/96
Color woodblock print; oban hexaptych (one of a pair of triptychs)
38.2 × 74.6 cm (15 × 29.4 in)

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