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Chôbunsai Eishi

A Selection of Beauty from the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase): Courtesans Hired for the New Years Holidays - Takigawa of the Ogiya

c. 1794
Color woodblock print; oban
37.4 × 25.4 cm (14.7 × 10 in)

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