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What is the title?
What does the text in the fan insert say?
What about the poem (?)on the left?
What do the two small cartouches at the bottom say?
Thanks!!!

Title cartouche,
祇園神輿はらい　Gion mikoshi-harai
ねり物姿　　　　Nerimono sugata
Gion Portable Shrine Purification
Costum Parade

Inscription within the fan shaped frame,
業平行司姿　Narihira gyōji-sugata
The Figure of Narihara the Referee
(Refers to the attire modeled after (or symbolizing) the elegant appearance of Ariwara no Narihira — a renowned poet of the Heian period — and depicts his demeanor)

Inscription of the left side,
うぢ屋三輪の　Ujiya Miwa no
...of Ujiya Miwa
(Could refer to a specific teahouse or merchant house etc. associated with the parade)

With regards,
I.Nagy

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