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Torii Kiyonaga

Entertainers of Nakazu, from the series "A Collection of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tosei yuri bijin awase)"

c. 1784
Color woodblock print; oban diptych
38.8 × 25.8 cm (15.3 × 10.2 in)

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