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Okumura Masanobu

Sleeve-Letter Takasago (Sodefumi Takasago), no. 2 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays

c. 1716/35
Hand-colored woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e
27.2 × 38.5 cm (10.7 × 15.2 in)

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