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The Hour of the Ox, Eight Hour of Night (Ushi no koku, Yoru no yattsu toki), from the series Twelve Hours of a Modern Clock (Imayo tokei jûniji)
Artist Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864),
Publisher Matsumura Tatsuemon (Japanese)
about 1818–24 (early Bunsei era)