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Kitao Masanobu

Flowers of Yamashita (Yamashita hana), from the series "Contest of Contemporary Beauties (Tosei bijin iro kurabe)"

late 1780s
Color woodblock print; oban
38.2 × 25 cm (15 × 9.8 in)

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