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Rising dragon
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Same picture: cf. BI 17445-10 Both signature and seal: Gekkō gleichgleichLeaf from an album with two series of Gekkō, one about beautiful women and flowers and a second about Japanese legends and heroes. Here is a leaf from the Legend series. From dense black clouds a dragon rises to the Fuji.
Title: Rising dragon
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Same picture: cf.
BI 17445-10 Both signature and seal: Gekkō gleichgleichLeaf from an album with two series of Gekkō, one about beautiful women and flowers and a second about Japanese legends and heroes.
Here is a leaf from the Legend series.
From dense black clouds a dragon rises to the Fuji.
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