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Isoda Koryusai

The Day of Starting (Kotohajime), from the series "The Fashionable Five Days of Starting (Furyu go kotohajime)"

c. 1773/75
Color woodblock print; chuban
25.8 × 19.4 cm (10.2 × 7.6 in)

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