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Matsukaze and Kihan, from the series Eight Portraits of Elegant Women
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Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Robert Gregg Stone
Title: Matsukaze and Kihan, from the series Eight Portraits of Elegant Women
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