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Ippitsusai Buncho

The Courtesan Handayu of the Nakaomiya House of Pleasure, from the series "Fuji-bumi (Folded Love-letters)"

c. 1769/70
Color woodblock print; hosoban
31.9 × 15.1 cm (12.6 × 5.9 in)

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