The Four Shelves: Petrova, Vásquez, Okafor, and Tanaka

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Four authors — Petrova, Vásquez, Okafor, and Tanaka — each have exactly one genre and bookmark, and no two share any of them. Match each author to their genre and bookmark from these clues: 1. Okafor is not the historian. 2. Petrova is not the historian. 3. The poet is the author whose book holds a pressed leaf. 4. Vásquez is not the author whose book holds a ribbon bookmark. 5. Okafor is not the author whose book holds a pressed leaf. 6. The historian is the author whose book holds a ribbon bookmark. 7. Petrova is not the author whose book holds a pressed leaf. 8. Petrova is not the mystery writer. 9. The mystery writer is the author whose book holds a postcard.

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In the final matching, which bookmark goes with “Tanaka”? Answer with just the bookmark.

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