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Komatsuya Hyakki

Incense That Revives the Image of the Dead - Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty

1765
Color woodblock print; left sheet of chuban diptych (right sheet: 1925.2144)
27.4 × 19.5 cm (10.8 × 7.7 in)

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