Courtesans of Kado Daikokuya, from the book Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters, vol. 2 by Katsukawa Shunsho and Kitao Shigemasa, 1776, depicting three elegantly dressed women in a domestic interior with elaborate hair ornaments, flowing robes, and scattered personal objects

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