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Boy on an ox with a flute
Picture of a Sunday in Yokohama
Puppeteer and shamisen player
Woman playing Samisen
Descending Geese of the Koto
A festival at the Sumiyoshi Shrine
A Private Puppet Performance
Moonlight Revelry at Dozo Sagami
An actor in female dress stringing a samisen
Yang Kuei-fei
Girl with a samisen standing beside a screen
A Picnic Party
Benten on a rock by the sea
A picnic party: musicians and attendants
Interior scene of a party with geisha and clients
Album of drawings of masks, faces and musical instruments
A Puppet-show: The Story of The Potted Trees
Shamisen Player
Two sketches: lady playing samisen and lady with back to observer looks between open shoji
Dancing the Bon Odori
Yujo reclining and reading a musical score
A Picnic Party
Preparatory drawing for a print in the series Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki
Gaiety in a riverside tea-house
The Chinese emperor Ming Huang and Yang Kuei-fei
Genso Yokihi
The Four Accomplishments
Woman with back to observer playing samisen
The Four Accomplishments
Five musicians playing drums
Boy Playing Flute
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