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Shunshosai Hokucho

The Actor Ichikawa Hakuen as Sukeroku

early 19th century
Color woodblock print; oban, part of multisheet composition (another sheet: 1939.1091)
35.9 × 25.7 cm (14.1 × 10.1 in)

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