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Nishimura Shigenaga

Beauty and Young Man Riding an Ox (parody of Kyoyu and Sobu?)

c. 1740s
Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e
31.8 × 15.3 cm (12.5 × 6 in)

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