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The Courtesan Hana-ogi of Ogiya as the Sennin Tekkai (from the series Eight Immortals of Sensuality)

Kitagawa Utamaro

Cleveland Museum of Art

A traditional Japanese woodblock print. A woman kneels on the floor, wears a kimono with a floral pattern and a hair ornament; she looks left. A second woman stands behind and to the left with a pink kimono with white circular patterns; she faces right. A scroll with Japanese characters hangs on the wall to the right. A small table with a tea set sits on the floor on the bottom right. Japanese characters appear on the wall, a standing woman on a screen and a hanging scroll with characters. The background is beige with darker shading around the characters.

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602 × 900 px
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