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This woodcut shows a Japanese woman wearing hair ornaments and a kimono. She is looking at small portraits. Add to board
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'Kogiku in Saruwaka-Cho' by Toyohara, Kunichika, 1878

'Kogiku in Saruwaka-Cho' by Toyohara, Kunichika (1878). Ukiyo-e print showing a beautiful woman, Kogiku, looking at photographic portraits (cartes de visite), possibly of her admirers.

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