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Beauty Gazing at the Moon

1902
Ōno Hōkei (Japanese, active 19th century)
Depictions of lovely, solitary women beneath blossoming trees, such as this scene of a woman under a flowering plum, have been popular in Asia for more than a thousand years. In China the plum blossom symbolizes elegant beauty and other virtues.

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