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Yashima Gakutei

Two Chinese Women Examining Thread and a Spider’s Web in a Box, from the series "Diptych for the Drum Group"

c. 1824
Color woodblock prints with metallic pigment; surimono shikishiban diptych
21.3 × 19 cm (8.4 × 7.5 in)

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