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Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815)
The Third Month, from the series Minami juni ko [Twelve Months in the South]

Woodblock print, with ladies viewing cherry blossom, the left sheet of a diptych, signed Kiyonaga ga, circa 1784, framed and glazed

Vertical oban (38.6 x 25.6cm.), including frame (63 x 48cm.)

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For further impressions of the complete diptych in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, see www.mfa.org accession number 21.7423-4, and the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art see www.metmuseum.org accession number JP2622a, b.


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