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  • Above, a Kabuki play scene, showing a woman washing the feet of another, watched by a man; below left, the changeling 'Jizō' (Kshitigarbha); below right, an 'entertainment woman' (geisha?) standing on a jetty on the Sumida river at Mukōjima. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, with bottom right design by Mōsai (Yoshitora), ca. 1870.
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    Above, a Kabuki play scene, showing a woman washing the feet of another, watched by a man; below left, the changeling 'Jizō' (Kshitigarbha); below right, an 'entertainment woman' (geisha?) standing on a jetty on the Sumida river at Mukōjima. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, with bottom right design by Mōsai (Yoshitora), ca. 1870.

    Kawanabe, Kyōsai, 1831-1889. | Date: [1870?] | Reference: 567349i
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