Courtesan treating a woman with moxibustion, burning moxa (mugwort) on her skin. Woodblock print by Masanobu Okumura (1686-1764) from Fuzoku Emakimono, Picture Scroll of the Water Trade, Tokyo, reprint circa 1880.

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