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Totoya Hokkei

It is good to open for business (Akinai hajime yoshi), from the series "A Series for the Hanazono Group (Hanazono bantsuzuki)"

c. 1822
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
21.6 × 19 cm (8.5 × 7.5 in)

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