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Hour of the Snake (Mi no koku), from the series "Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)"
Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿LinkedCulture matchlcp-66291d655d92
- Date
- c. 1794
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 23960
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Baron Sumitomo Tomoito (1865–1926). With Yamanaka & Company; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, June 1913; by descent to his sisters Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870–1920) and Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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