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Chôbunsai Eishi

Hanamurasaki of the Kadotamaya, from the series Six Flowery Immortals of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin rokkasen)

c. 1794/95
Color woodblock print; oban
39.5 × 26.2 cm (15.6 × 10.3 in)

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