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Kitao Shigemasa

Returning Sails at Ryogoku River (Ryogoku no kihan), from the series "Eight Parodies by Contemporary Beauties (Tosei mitate bijin hakkei)"

late 18th century
Color woodblock print; oban
36.6 × 25.8 cm (14.4 × 10.2 in)

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