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Kitagawa Utamaro depicts women in Yoshiwara clad in white kimono in an illustrated book depicting annual events in the pleasure quarter. (Courtesy National Diet Library)
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A large banner printed with the characters for sairei (festival) flutters as people carry a shrine through the streets in a work from the series Fine Views of the Eastern Capital at a Glance by Katsushika Hokusai. (Courtesy National Diet Library)
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The full moon rises at Dōkanyama as a mother and child collect autumn insects, from Utagawa Hiroshige’s Famous Places in the Eastern Capital. (Courtesy National Diet Library)
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From left: A stall selling turtles in an illustrated work describing seasonal events (courtesy National Diet Library); a turtle swings in the air in Utagawa Hiroshige’s Mannen Bridge in Fukagawa, in the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Courtesy ColBase).
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