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Katsukawa Shun'ei

Act Five: Yamazaki Highway from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

c. 1795
Color woodblock print; koban
23.2 × 17.3 cm (9.1 × 6.8 in)

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