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The First Month (Shôgatsu), from an untitled series of Customs of the Twelve Months, with comic poems
Artist Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806),
Publisher Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)
about 1790–91 (Kansei 2–3)