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Katsushika Hokusai

Bai Juyi (Japanese: Hakurakuten), from the series "A True Mirror of Japanese and Chinese Poems (Shiika shashin kyo)"

c. 1833/34
Color woodblock print; vertical nagaban
51.1 × 23 cm (20.1 × 9.1 in)

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