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Katsukawa Shun'ei

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Yae (?), in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1788 (?)

c. 1788
Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (?)
31.7 × 13.8 cm (12.5 × 5.4 in)

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