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The Hour of the Monkey (Saru no koku), from the series The Twelve Hours in the Yoshiwara (Seirô jûni toki tsuzuki)
Artist Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806),
Publisher Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
about 1794 (Kansei 6)