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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Akoya in the Play Edo Meisho Midori Soga, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Second Month, 1779

c. 1779
Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych
31.3 × 14.1 cm (12.3 × 5.6 in)

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