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Kitao Masanobu

The Courtesan Hitomoto of the Daimonjiya, from the album "Comparing New Beauties of the Yoshiwara - A Mirror of Their Own Writings (Keisei shin bijin awase jikihitsu kagami)"

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Color woodblock print; right sheet of double-page illustration from book
37 × 25 cm (14.6 × 9.8 in)

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