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Erast Petrovich had seen beauties like that in ukiyo-e prints, but after spending several days in Japan, he had decided that the elegant, charming female figures of the ukiyo-e were a mere fabrication, like all the other fantasies of European ‘japonisme’, but O-Yumi was every bit as lovely as the beauties immortalised by the Japanese artist Utamaro, whose works were now sold in the saloons of Paris for substantial amounts of money.
Nachdem er einige Tage in Japan verbracht hatte, war er zu dem Schluß gekommen, daß die reizenden Ukiyo-e-Figuren ebenso erfunden waren wie die übrigen Phantasiebilder des europäischen »Japanismus«. Doch O-Yumi stand den Bildern des alten japanischen Meisters Outamaro, dessen Arbeiten in Pariser Salons inzwischen für viel Geld gehandelt wurden, in nichts nach. Sie schwebte vorüber und warf Fandorin und seinem Gesprächspartner einen kurzen Blick zu.
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