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The courtesans Utagawa and Nanasato of the Yotsume 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)

The courtesans Utagawa and Nanasato of the Yotsume 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)

1761 - 1816

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演

Japanese

Eighth two-page spread of an accordion-fold woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

Edo period, 1615-1868

Prints