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Utagawa Kunisada I

Memorial portrait: Ichikawa Ebizo V (Danjuro VII) looking up at a painting of the late Danjuro VIII

1854
Color woodblock print; oban
37.7 × 25.5 cm (14.8 × 10 in)

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