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Kitao Shigemasa

Courtesans of Ogiya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1

1776
Color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book
21.4 × 29.7 cm (8.4 × 11.7 in)

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