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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Abe no Muneto Disguised as a Peddler of Buckwheat Noodles, in the Play Otokoyama Yunzei Kurabe, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1768

c. 1768
Color woodblock print; hosoban
31.8 × 14.6 cm (12.5 × 5.7 in)

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