
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Lovers Ohan and Choemon (from the series Joruri Ballads in the Tokiwazu and Tomimoto Styles)
Kitagawa Utamaro
- Date
- early or mid 1800s
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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