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Okumura Masanobu

The Bamboo Flute and the Potted Tree (Shakuhachi hachi-no-ki), no. 12 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays

c. 1716/35
Woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e
38.1 × 27 cm (15 × 10.6 in)

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