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

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House cleaning in preparation for the New Year

House cleaning in preparation for the New Year

House cleaning in preparation for the New Year

Kitagawa Utamaro

1792–1804

Medium: Color woodblock print; three left sheets of oban pentaptych
Genre: Woodblock print
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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Japanese (culture or style)

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