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Courtesan Listening to Singing of Little Cuckoo by Utagawa Kunisada II — VisualArtsDB

Courtesan Listening to Singing of Little Cuckoo

Courtesan Listening to Singing of Little Cuckoo

Utagawa Kunisada II

1860

Medium: Hanging scroll (nikuhitsu), ink and color on silk
Dimensions: 32 13/16 × 14 in. (83.34 × 35.56 cm) (image) 64 5/8 × 18 11/16 in. (164.15 × 47.47 cm) (mount, without roller)
Genre: Painting
Museum: Minneapolis Institute of Art

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