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The courtesans Koi Murasaki and Hana Murasaki of the Kado Tama House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)
Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演
- Date
- Mid Edo period, dated 1784
- Medium
- Fifth two-page spread of an accordion-fold woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
- Culture
- Japanese
- Department
- Department of Asian Art
- Institution
- Harvard Art Museums
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