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Okumura Masanobu: Hanshozuku Bijin Soroi

Mizuno Toshikata, c. 1895

How Beauty Looking Back reflects Japanese history

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9 Memorials and Monuments in the United States

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Poker Hands Ranked

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7 of History's Most Notorious Serial Killers

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7 Everyday English Idioms and Where They Come From

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Timeline of the 2000s

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Plants

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Key People

Kaburagi Kiyokata

Japanese painter

Utagawa Toyokuni

Japanese artist