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Messenger with a Letter, from the series "Elegant Five-needled Pine (Furyu goyo no matsu)"
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Messenger with a Letter, from the series "Elegant Five-needled Pine (Furyu goyo no matsu)"

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿, Japanese, 1753 (?)-1806 · c. 1797/98 · Color woodblock print; oban

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woodblock printJapanese (culture or style)printasian art
Credit lineMessenger with a Letter, from the series "Elegant Five-needled Pine (Furyu goyo no matsu)". c. 1797/98. Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿, Japanese, 1753 (?)-1806. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. Gaylord Donnelley. CC0.
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