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Cover details: (front) Woman Admiring Plum Blossoms at Night by Suzuki Harunobu from the Fletcher Fund, 1929, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; gold leaf from a folding screen from Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of Many and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015, Metropolitan Museum of Art; calligraphy © Keiko Shimoda; printed textile from the Steve Banks Collection; other details courtesy of The London Library
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