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Mother Teaching her Daughter Calligraphy, from the series, Twelve Occupations of Women, Kitagawa Utamaro

Mother Teaching her Daughter Calligraphy, from the series, Twelve Occupations of Women

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese) (1753-1806)

Movement
Japanese woodblock print
Date
c. 1798
Medium
Colour woodcut on paper
Dimensions
38.8 × 25.2 cm (sheet)
Collection
Cleveland Museum of Art, United States
Rights
Public domain
Photograph
Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0

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