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A Page from Gifts from the Ebb Tide by Kitagawa Utamaro — VisualArtsDB

A Page from Gifts from the Ebb Tide

A Page from Gifts from the Ebb Tide

Kitagawa Utamaro

1784–1794

Medium: Color woodblock-printed book; 1 vol.
Dimensions: 27.5 × 19.4 cm (10 7/8 × 7 11/16 in.)
Genre: book
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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Japanese (culture or style)

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