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Okumura Masanobu

The Brazier of Elegance and the Bell of Damnation (Fuga hibachi muken no kane)

c. 1739/40
Hand-colored woodblock print; oban, beni-e
32.7 × 45.7 cm (12.9 × 18 in)

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