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Kitagawa Utamaro

狂月坊|The Palace in the Moon

8th month, 1789
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
23.8 × 37.3 cm (9.4 × 14.7 in)

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

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