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Okumura Masanobu

Courtesans Drawn in Osaka style (right), Kyoto style (center), and Edo style (left), from "Courtesans of the Three Capitals: A Set of Three (Sanga no tsu keisei sanpukutsui)"

c. 1748
Color woodblock print; uncut hosoban triptych, benizuri-e
30 × 44 cm (11.8 × 17.3 in)

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