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Messenger with a Letter, from the series Elegant Five-Needled Pine (Fûryû goyô no matsu)
Artist Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806),
Publisher Tsuruya Kinsuke (Sôkakudô) (Japanese)
about 1797–98 (Kansei 9–10)