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Okumura Masanobu

Poem by Fujiwara no Teika, from the series "Yoshiwara Courtesans in the Three Evenings (Yoshiwara keisei sanseki)"

c. 1750
Color woodblock print; left sheet of hosoban triptych, benizuri-e
28.8 × 13.5 cm (11.3 × 5.3 in)

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