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Okumura Masanobu

Sanbaso Dance in a Brothel (Ageya sanbaso), no. 1 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays

c. 1716/35
Hand-colored woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e
27.1 × 37.1 cm (10.7 × 14.6 in)

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