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Katsukawa Shunsho

"Yo": A Man Meets a Former Lover, now Serving in a Provincial Household, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

c. 1772/73
Color woodblock print; koban
22.8 × 15.9 cm (9 × 6.3 in)

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