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Ishikawa Toyonobu

The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I looking at a guidebook to the pleasure quarters

c. 1750
Color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e
40.8 × 30.1 cm (16.1 × 11.9 in)

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