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Takigawa of the Ōgiya from the series A Selection of Eastern Beauties

Kitagawa Utamaro

Cleveland Museum of Art

A Japanese print of a woman's head and shoulders. The woman has dark hair styled in a bun, with a beige half-moon shape on top and several long thin beige sticks protruding from it. She wears a garment with a red and white floral pattern on the inside. Her right hand holds a long thin orange object up to her lips. There is Japanese text vertically on the left and right sides. The background is a light beige color.

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621 × 900 px
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