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A Cuckoo Against the Moon by Utagawa Hiroshige — VisualArtsDB

A Cuckoo Against the Moon

A Cuckoo Against the Moon

Utagawa Hiroshige

1838–1841

Medium: Color woodblock print; uchiwa-e
Dimensions: 24 × 30.7 cm (9 1/8 × 11 5/8 in.)
Genre: print
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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Japanese (culture or style)

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