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Utagawa Kunisada I

Potted Violets: Jiraiya (Tsubo sumire, Jiraiya), from the series "Contemporary Parodies of the Thirty-six Selected Flowers (Tosei mitate sanjurokkasen)"

1862
Color woodblock print; oban

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