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Fond of Noise from the series Eight Views of Favorite Things of Today’s World

Kitagawa Utamaro

Cleveland Museum of Art

A woman with a black hair bun adorned with a beige hairpin faces left, her eyes closed. She wears a pink and white striped top with a black kimono featuring beige designs. A man with a small black hair bun and an orange striped top stands behind her, holding a pipe to his mouth with his right hand and touching her hair with his left. Japanese text appears on the right and left sides. The background is beige.

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600 × 900 px
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