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Butterflies and Folding Fans

Butterflies and Folding Fans

1820

Medium: Mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu)
Genre: Animals
Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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