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Ryuryukyo Shinsai

Seiobo (Queen Mother of the West) and tortoise, from an untitled hexaptych depicting a pair of folding screens

c. 1825
Color woodblock print; sheet from shikishiban hexaptych, surimono
21.4 × 18.8 cm (8.4 × 7.4 in)

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