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Suzuki Harunobu

Courtesan Dreaming of her Childhood

c. 1770
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Pillar prints, or hashira-e (柱絵), are long and narrow Japanese woodblock prints originally intended to decorate wooden pillars.

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