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Katsushika Hokusai

Walking Courtesan

1850

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冨嶽三十六景　身延川裏不二|View from the Other Side of Fuji from the Minobu River (Minobugawa ura Fuji), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

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