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Title: Evening Bell at Ikegami/ 池上晩鐘 (Ikegami no Bansho)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Depicted is the Ikegami Honmonji temple that was completed in 1282 and founded by Buddhist priest and philosopher Nichiren. The site is thought to be where Nichiren passed away. This is referenced in the accompanying poem that mentions the founder going to Nirvana. The landscape is rendered in a series of dark and washed out blues creating a misty poetic quality. The red temple building stands out among the forest grove it is settled in. At the foot of the hill is a small town occupied by temple visitors and vendors. Poem signed Shunkutei Tareyasu : By virtue of the truth of the Eight Scrolls,/ One prolongs one's age./ The founder of the temple went to Nirvana/ as the evening bell was striking. (Translation by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Series: Eight views of the Environs of Edo/ 江戸近郊八景之内 (Edo Kinko Hakkei)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_E4_0004
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100572
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Title: Evening View of Benten Pond in Ikutama
Creator: Nansuitei Yoshiyuki/ 南粋亭芳雪 (Signature: Yoshiyuki ga/ 芳雪画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A view of Benten pond on the grounds of Ikutama seen through the opening of a black and green railing. Along the bottom is a bright yellow bridge and pond filled with pink lotus. Further back is the temple building in bright red and green, In the background of the faded silhouettes of the tree line and the roofs of nearby buildings. In the sky, there is a crescent moon.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Ponds -- Japan -- Art; Temples -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0090
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100941
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Title: Evening View of Kakuman-ji Temple
Creator: Nansuitei Yoshiyuki/ 南粋亭芳雪 (Signature: Yoshiyuki ga/ 芳雪画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Through the stalks of bamboo in the foreground is a view of Kakuman-ji Temple. A woman and monk pass by on the road outside. The roof of the temple and the tops of flowering trees can be seen over the outer wall of the temple.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0096
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100947
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Title: Evening View of Tetsugen-ji Temple/ 鉄眼寺夕景 (Tetsugen-ji yûkei)
Creator: Nansuitei Yoshiyuki/ 南粋亭芳雪 (Signature: Yoshiyuki ga/ 芳雪画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A quiet street scene with only a peasant and two monks on the road leading to the gate of Tetsugen-ji Temple to the far left side. Along the road is a wall of trees and vegetation obscuring the lower half of the temple buildings that can be seen over the vegetation. Large red banners are hung from the top of poles and are blowing in the wind. Above the scene flocks of birds can be seen in the distance.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0029
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100880
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Title: Fujisawa: The Yugyo-ji Temple/ 藤沢遊行寺 (Fujisawa, Yugyo-ji)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Yugyoji temple is on a hill in the mid-ground surrounded by trees. Pink gray mist settles around the base of the hill and roofs of the houses peak through the mist. In the foreground is a torii gate along the road and a wooden bridge filled with travelers immediately behind it. The crowd leads the eye into the bustling village.
Series: The Sequel to the Scenes of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/東海道五十三驛風景續畫 (Tokaido gojusantsugi Fukei Tsuzukie)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Villages -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T65_0017
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100687
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Title: Gappo-ga-tsuji Intersection at Shitenno-ji Temple
Creator: Nansuitei Yoshiyuki/ 南粋亭芳雪 (Signature: Yoshiyuki ga/ 芳雪画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A woman dressed in winter clothing and parasol to protect her from the weather at the center of a snowy landscape. To her right is another traveler and the Gappo-ga-tsuji temple mentioned in the title. The temple dedicated to Emma the king of hell and is featured in the Kabuki play Sesshu Gappo-ga-tsuji, which the story of a mother who falls in love with her step son.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Winter -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0088
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100939
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Title: Hall of the Wisdom King Aizen at Shoman-in Temple
Creator: Nansuitei Yoshiyuki/ 南粋亭芳雪 (Signature: Yoshiyuki ga/ 芳雪画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A close-up view of the top of Shoman-in Temple's Hall of the Wisdom King Aizen. A folk of sparrows flying and perching on the ornate red structure. In the background is a view of the city and the ocean beyond. Shoman-in Temple is one of the four temples Prince Shotoku had constructed along with Shitenno-ji. The temple is dedicated to Aizen the Buddhist god of love.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0097
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100948
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Title: Horinouchi Yodobashi Mizuame/ 堀之内淀はし水飴
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II/ 二代目歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画); Utagawa Kunisada/ 歌川国貞 (Signature: kio Toyokuni ga/ 喜翁豊国筆)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Two porters carry a woman in a sedan chair in the abstract gradient foreground. The woman is likely a wealthy wife based on her shaved eyebrows and means of transportation. Past the abstract cloud pattern is a landscape of Myoho-ji Temple, the principal temple of Nichiren Buddhism. Visiting the temple was said to help pilgrims dispel misfortune.
Series: Thirty-six Scenes of the Pride of Edo/ 江戸自慢三十六輿 (Edo jiman sanjūrokkyō)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Japan -- Social life and customs -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U7_E42_0014
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100969
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Title: Ikegami-Honmon-ji Temple Eshiki/ 池上本門寺会式
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II/ 二代目歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画); Utagawa Kunisada/ 歌川国貞 (Signature: kio Toyokuni ga/ 喜翁豊国筆)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. In the foreground is a mother and her two children. Behind them is the approach to Ikegami Honmon-ji Temple. The temple grounds are lavishly decorated and busy with people. The crowd behind the family leads viewers eyes down the shop lined street to the stir leading up to the large temple in the upper left-hand corner of the image. The occasion is Eshiki, a Buddhist ceremony held by temples of the Nishiren sect. Honmon-ji's was particularly lavish because tit was the temple that the founder Nichiren had spent the last years of his life.
Series: Thirty-six Scenes of the Pride of Edo/ 江戸自慢三十六輿 (Edo jiman sanjūrokkyō)
Subject: Mother and child -- Japan -- Art; Temples -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U7_E42_0035
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100990
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Title: Ishiyakushi: Ishiyakushi Temple/ 石薬師石薬師寺 (Ishiyakushi, Ishiyakushi-ji)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A small causeway at the bottom crosses the rice fields toward the Ishiyakushi Temple hidden in the trees. Behind the village are large blue and green hills that fill the background.
Series: The Sequel to the Scenes of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/東海道五十三驛風景續畫 (Tokaido gojusantsugi Fukei Tsuzukie)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Villages -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T65_0057
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100727
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Title: Juho-ji Temple/ 寿法寺 (Juhô-ji)
Creator: Utagawa Yoshitaki/ 歌川芳滝 (Signature: Yoshitaki ga/芳瀧画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. The twisted trunk of a bright orange maple tree cuts diagonally, from the bottom right to the top left corner, at the front of the image. Behind it is a scene of visitors to the Juho-ji temple. Some can be seen praying at auxiliary shrines, viewing the autumn colors, and enjoying tea.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Autumn -- Japan -- Art; Temples -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0033
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100884
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Title: Large bell of Zōjō-ji Temple/ 増上寺大鐘
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II/ 二代目歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画); Utagawa Kunisada/ 歌川国貞 (Signature: kio Toyokuni ga/ 喜翁豊国筆)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A young woman and child walk the path approaching Zojo-ji Temple. The path is line with several pine trees and to the right of the central figures is one of the temple's bright read structures. Further in the background more temple visitors and buildings can be seen. Zojo-ji Temple was the family Temple of Tokugawa shogunate house as was home to a large bell that was 3 meters high and weighed 15 tons. The was said to be the first in Edo and was built by order of the 4th Shogun, Tokugawa Ietsuna.
Series: Thirty-six Scenes of the Pride of Edo/ 江戸自慢三十六輿 (Edo jiman sanjūrokkyō)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Japan -- Social life and customs -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U7_E42_0033
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100988
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Title: Meguro Fudō Temple Mochibana/ 目黒不動餅花
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II/ 二代目歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画); Utagawa Kunisada/ 歌川国貞 (Signature: kio Toyokuni ga/ 喜翁豊国筆)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A mother child pairing in the foreground walk past a stall in the lower left corner selling Mochibana, flower arrangements made of mochi. Behind them are the grounds of Ryusen-ji Temple outside Meguro Fudo Hall. This was a popular pilgrimage spot since worship of the god Fudo flourished in Edo through the Tokugawa period.
Series: Thirty-six Scenes of the Pride of Edo/ 江戸自慢三十六輿 (Edo jiman sanjūrokkyō)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Japan -- Social life and customs -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U7_E42_0010
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100965
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Title: The Precincts of Shitennô-ji Temple/ 四天王寺伽藍 (Shitennô-ji garan)
Creator: Utagawa Yoshitaki/ 歌川芳滝 (Signature: Yoshitaki ga/芳瀧画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. In the foreground is the main pagoda of the temple. To the left of the pagoda the temple grounds can be seen with various visitors inside. Around the walls of the temple are blooming cherry blossoms. Past the temple there is mist laying low over the landscape obscuring the view of the surrounding the city. In the background is the silhouette of the nearby mountains.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0037
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100888
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Title: Shari-ji Temple/ 舎利寺 (Shari-ji)
Creator: Utagawa Yoshitaki/ 歌川芳滝 (Signature: Yoshitaki ga/芳瀧画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. In the foreground, a farmer leads an ox and a plow through a field. On the left side, people are walking toward a large clearing with vendor stalls and the entrance to Shari-ji temple. The structures of the temple can be seen just over the height of the outer wall. In the sky, there is a line of birds flying overhead.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0034
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100885
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Title: Shitenno-ji Temple
Creator: Nansuitei Yoshiyuki/ 南粋亭芳雪 (Signature: Yoshiyuki ga/ 芳雪画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A view of Shitenno-ji temple through the frame of the temple gate along right-side and top of the image. The temple ground are filled with visitors and blooming trees. On the right side is the multistory pagoda the temple is famous for. Shitenno-ji is the oldest and first official Buddhist temple in Japan and was originally commissioned by Prince Shotoku who popularized Buddhist practice in Japan.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Japan -- Social life and customs -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0087
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100938
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Title: Taiyu-ji Temple in Kitano/ 北之大融寺 (Kitano Taiyû-ji)
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. The bright red gate of Taiyu-ji temple is bolding cropped at the forefront of the composition. The gate creates a frame within the image for the small vignette scene of visitors approaching the large temple building in the upper right. Also hanging over the entry path below are the branches to a large pine tree in the upper left of the gate.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0022
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100873
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Title: The Temple of Amida Pond/ あみだ池 (Amida-ike)
Creator: Utagawa Yoshitaki/ 歌川芳滝 (Signature: Yoshitaki ga/芳瀧画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A compact, bright red temple sit on top of a platform in the center of a small pond. Two bridges connect it to the shore in the back and front. The bridge facing the viewer is full of visitors coming and going from the shrine. In the lower foreground is a cropped view of the street where a large, twisted pine tree rise up the center of the image and slightly obscures the temple form view. There are two sign/memorial tablets on either side of the pine tree. The small temple is built for the Amitabha image of the Buddha.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Japan -- Social life and customs -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0020
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100871
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Title: The Temple of the Eguchi Courtesan/ 江口君堂 (Eguchi-no-kimi-dô)
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. In the foreground there is a support rope across the image and the edges of a boat in the two lower corners placing the viewer on the boat overlooking the water and the shore. The building nestled among trees is the titular Temple of the Eguchi Courtesan, marked by a stone lantern and sign tablet on the far left. Flying above the water is a large white and yellow, possibly a type of heron.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0051
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100902
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Title: The Temple of the Five Great Power Bodhisattvas at Sumiyoshi/ 住よし五大力 (Sumiyoshi Godairiki)
Creator: Utagawa Yoshitaki/ 歌川芳滝 (Signature: Yoshitaki ga/芳瀧画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A large pine tree bisects the composition and slightly obscures the view of the main temple building in the background. Behind this main building is a wall of vegetation. On the left side, there is a sacred well/fountain, likely for visitors to wash before prayer. Around the property, there is a variety of stone lanterns and inscribed tablets. Pairs of men and women can be seen mingling around the temple property.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Japan -- Social life and customs -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0040
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100891
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