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House cleaning in preparation for the New Year

A work made of color woodblock print; three left sheets of oban pentaptych.
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  • A work made of color woodblock print; three left sheets of oban pentaptych.

Date:

late 1790s

Artist:

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿
Japanese, 1753 (?)-1806

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Kitagawa Utamaro

Title

House cleaning in preparation for the New Year

Place

Japan (Artist's nationality:)

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1796–1799

Medium

Color woodblock print; three left sheets of oban pentaptych

Dimensions

38.8 × 77 cm (15 5/16 × 30 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection

Reference Number

1925.2321

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