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Okumura Masanobu

Courtesan Likened to the Chinese Sage Zhang Guolao (Japanese: Chokaro)

c. 1715
Hand-colored woodblock print; o-oban, tan-e
53.4 × 30.9 cm (21 × 12.2 in)

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