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Okumura Masanobu

奥村政信画　見立紫式部図|Parody of Murasaki Shikibu at Her Desk

ca. 1710
Monochrome woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
26.4 × 35.9 cm (10.4 × 14.1 in)

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