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Chôbunsai Eishi

Wakana, Part 1 (Wakana, jo), from the series "A Fashionable Parody of the Tale of Genji (Furyu yatsushi Genji)"

c. 1789/94
Color woodblock prints; right sheet of oban triptych (complete triptych: 1930.388)
36.9 × 25.4 cm (14.5 × 10 in)

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