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Okumura Masanobu

A Man and a Courtesan Watching a Young Man Writing, first sheet of the album "Mountain of Dyed Color, Specimens of Bedrooms (Someiro no yama neya no hinagata)"

c. 1739
Hand-colored woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e
27.6 × 36.6 cm (10.9 × 14.4 in)

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