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Nishimura Shigenaga

The Overgrowth of Weeds, No. 15 from the series "Genji in Fifty-four Sheets (Genji gojuyonmai no uchi)"

c. 1735
Hand-colored woodblock print; horizontal hosoban, beni-e
16.2 × 34 cm (6.4 × 13.4 in)

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