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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)
38.4 × 25.4 cm (15.1 × 10 in)

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