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Title: The courtesans Mandayu (reading) and Komurasaki (writing a verse)
Creator: Okumura Masanobu, Japanese, 1686-1764
Date Created and/or Issued: 1701
Publication Information: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
Collection: Japanese Prints
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: After an album of portraits of courtesans by Torii Kiyonobu I, "Keisei Ehon," 1700.
Type: image
Format: Oban Woodcut 10 5/8 x 14 3/4 inches
Form/Genre: Oban
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1g5003sr
1965.30.130
Subject: Courtesans; leisure; writing (processes); reading; grooming

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