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Okumura Masanobu

The Courier Kantan dreaming of Himself as a Daimyo (Hikyaku Kantan: yume no daimyo), no. 8 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays

c. 1716/35
Woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e
27.1 × 38.9 cm (10.7 × 15.3 in)

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