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Kitagawa Utamaro

Murasaki Shikibu: Bird, from the series "Famous Women and Their Poems on Flowers, Birds, Wind, and Moon (Meifu eika kacho fugetsu)"

c. 1805
Color woodblock print; oban
38.8 × 25.8 cm (15.3 × 10.2 in)

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