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A couple making love beside a shamisen, a leaf from Unravelling the Threads of Desire (Negai no ito-guchi)
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A couple making love beside a shamisen, a leaf from Unravelling the Threads of Desire (Negai no ito-guchi)

Kitagawa Utamaro · 1799 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e), from an illustrated erotic book (shunpon); ink and color on paper

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Credit lineA couple making love beside a shamisen, a leaf from Unravelling the Threads of Desire (Negai no ito-guchi). 1799. Kitagawa Utamaro. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift, 1952. CC0.
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