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Woman Putting on Finger Plectrums to Play the Koto by Utagawa Toyohiro — VisualArtsDB

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Woman Putting on Finger Plectrums to Play the Koto

Woman Putting on Finger Plectrums to Play the Koto

Woman Putting on Finger Plectrums to Play the Koto

Utagawa Toyohiro

1800–1828

Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions: 31 5/16 x 10 1/4 in. (79.6 x 26 cm)
Genre: Paintings
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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