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No Matter What You Do Someone Will Hear and Talk by Utagawa Kuniyoshi — VisualArtsDB

No Matter What You Do Someone Will Hear and Talk

No Matter What You Do Someone Will Hear and Talk

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

1842

Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 14 11/16 × 5 1/16 in. (37.3 × 12.9 cm) (image, sheet, tanzaku-e)
Genre: Print
Museum: Minneapolis Institute of Art

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