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Painting · c. 1690 · Edo (Tokyo) · Asia

Defining bijin image by the father of ukiyo-e; later one of Japan's best-known postage stamps (1948)

Author: Hishikawa Moronobu
Style: Ukiyo-e — Pictures of the floating world: actors, beauties and views of Edo in mass-printed colour woodblocks
Century: 17th century

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