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Totoya Hokkei

Ushi-no-toki mairi|Woman in the Rain at Midnight Driving a Nail into a Tree to Invoke Evil on Her Unfaithful Lover

19th century
Part of an album of woodblock prints (surimono); ink and color on paper
20.8 × 13.7 cm (8.2 × 5.4 in)

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