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Kitagawa Utamaro

Matsumoto Koshiro IV and Nakayama Tomisaburo, the left hand sheet of a triptych entitled “Six Actors Likened to the Immortal Poets" ("Yakusha Rokkasen")

c. 1784
Color woodblock print; hosoban
32.7 × 14.5 cm (12.9 × 5.7 in)

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