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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Otani Hiroemon III as Gokumon Shobei in the Play Sugata no Hana Kurofune Zukin, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Ninth Month, 1774

c. 1774
Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition (?)
29.6 × 14 cm (11.7 × 5.5 in)

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