Watanabe Nangaku, Bijin, or beautiful woman with a skull, early nineteenth century, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Clare Pollard, Curator of Japanese Art at the Ashmolean brings to life a Japanese scroll, and what it reveals about the lives of courtesans in nineteenth-century Japan.
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Clare Pollard