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Yoshiwara Courtesans: A New Mirror Comparing the Calligraphy of Beauties (Yoshiwara keisei: Shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)吉原傾城」新美人合自筆鏡

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Polychrome woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper, Edo period (1615–1868), Japan

Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Howard Mansfield Collection Gift of Howard Mansfield 1936

Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden) 北尾政演 (山東京伝) (Artist)

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Title: Yoshiwara Courtesans: A New Mirror Comparing the Calligraphy of Beauties (Yoshiwara keisei: Shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)吉原傾城」新美人合自筆鏡

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Polychrome woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper, Edo period (1615–1868), Japan.

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