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Beauty Playing a Shamisen

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Remounted section of a screen; ink and color on paper, Edo period (1615–1868), Japan
Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, H. O. Havemeyer Collection Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer 1929
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Title: Beauty Playing a Shamisen
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Remounted section of a screen; ink and color on paper, Edo period (1615–1868), Japan.

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