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Chôbunsai Eishi

Beauties Parodying the Seven Sages - A Selection of Younger Courtesans (Shichi kenjin yatsushi bijin shinzo zoroe): Miyagawa of the Matsubaya

c. 1793
Color woodblock print; oban
38.1 × 25.4 cm (15 × 10 in)

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