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Katsushika Hokusai

Whaling off the Coast of the Goto Islands (Goto kujira tsuki), from the series "One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (Chie no umi)"

c. 1831–33
Color woodblock print; chuban
19 × 25.7 cm (7.5 × 10.1 in)

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