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Totoya Hokkei

The Street of the Post Station (Umayachi), from the series “Eighteen Illustrations of the Ladder of Ancient Words (Kogentei juhachiban tsuzuki)”

1831
Color woodblock print; surimono
20.8 × 18 cm (8.2 × 7.1 in)

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