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House cleaning in preparation for the New Year by Kitagawa Utamaro — VisualArtsDB

House cleaning in preparation for the New Year

House cleaning in preparation for the New Year

Kitagawa Utamaro

1796–1799

Medium: Color woodblock print; three left sheets of oban pentaptych
Dimensions: 38.8 × 77 cm (15 5/16 × 30 3/8 in.)
Genre: woodblock print
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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Japanese (culture or style)

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Kitagawa Utamaro, 1754

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