Courtesans of the Tamaya, from the book Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters, vol. 1 by Katsukawa Shunsho and Kitao Shigemasa, 1776, depicting five elegantly dressed women with elaborate hairstyles and patterned robes in an interior setting

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