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Katsushika Hokusai

Sei Shonagon, from the series "A True Mirror of Japanese and Chinese Poems (Shiika shashin kyo)"

c. 1833/34
Color woodblock print; vertical nagaban
71.2 × 40.6 cm (28 × 16 in)

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