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Okumura Masanobu

Courtesans Drawn in Osaka Style (Osaka kakiwake), from "Courtesans of the Three Capitals - A Set of Three (Sanga no tsu keisei sanpukutsui)"

c. 1748
Color woodblock print; right sheet of hosoban triptych, benizuri-e
31.3 × 14.6 cm (12.3 × 5.7 in)

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