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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actors Ichikawa Danzo III as I no Hayata Tadazumi (right), and Matsumoto Koshiro II as Osada no Taro Kagemune (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

c. 1770
Color woodblock print; hosoban
30.3 × 13.8 cm (11.9 × 5.4 in)

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