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Torii Kiyonaga

No. 2: Chinese boys copying paintings and writing Japanese, from the series "Children Say 'This is Japan!' and Imitate the Games They See in Picturebooks (Yodo iu koitsu wa Nippon, ezoshi o mite yori sono gai ni asobu)"

c. 1791
Color woodblock print; chuban
25.1 × 18.7 cm (9.9 × 7.4 in)

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