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

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

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese) (1753-1806)

Movement
Japanese woodblock print
Date
c. 1805
Medium
Colour woodcut on paper
Dimensions
38.8 × 25.8 cm
Collection
Art Institute of Chicago, United States
Rights
Public domain
Photograph
Art Institute of Chicago, CC0

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