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Totoya Hokkei

Promise (Seiyaku no ukei), from the series "Eighteen Illustrations of the Ladder of Ancient Words (Kogentei juhachiban tsuzuki)"

1831
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
19.8 × 17 cm (7.8 × 6.7 in)

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