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Katsukawa Shunsho

Yagurashita no Bansho (Evening Bell at Yagurashita), Courtesan and Her Attendant at the Yagurashita Unlicensed Pleaser District in Fukagawa, from the series "Fukagawa Hakkei (Eights Views of Fukagawa)"

c. 1771
Color woodblock print; chuban
25.2 × 19 cm (9.9 × 7.5 in)

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