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Chôbunsai Eishi

Suma, from the series "A Fashionable Parody of the Tale of Genji (Furyu yatsushi Genji)"

c. 1789/94
Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych (left sheet: 1925.3103)
38.7 × 25.4 cm (15.2 × 10 in)

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