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Messenger with a Letter, from the series "Elegant Five-needled Pine (Furyu goyo no matsu)", Kitagawa Utamaro

Messenger with a Letter, from the series "Elegant Five-needled Pine (Furyu goyo no matsu)"

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese) (1753-1806)

Movement
Japanese woodblock print
Date
c. 1797–1798
Medium
Colour woodcut on paper
Dimensions
38.7 × 25.9 cm
Collection
Art Institute of Chicago, United States
Rights
Public domain
Photograph
Art Institute of Chicago, CC0

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