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Okumura Masanobu

『閨の雛形』　正月|Plate from the Erotic Book Mounds of Dyed Colors: A Pattern Book for the Boudoir (Someiro no yama neya no hinagata), First Month

ca. 1736–44
Hand-colored woodblock illustration; ink and color on paper

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