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The Silver World (Gin sekai) 銀世界 by Kitagawa Utamaro — VisualArtsDB

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The Silver World (Gin sekai) 銀世界

The Silver World (Gin sekai) 銀世界

The Silver World (Gin sekai) 銀世界

Kitagawa Utamaro

1790

Medium: Polychrome woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Overall: 10 1/8 × 7 1/2 in. (25.7 × 19 cm)
Genre: Illustrated books
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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