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A woman with two children, having abandoned her home, goes into the forest where she encounters a leopard, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirtieth Night

c. 1560
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

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The woman is described as bad-tempered, quarrelsome, sharp-tongued, gossipy, and peevish.

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