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Okumura Masanobu

The Actor Kirinami Onoe as Osasa in the play "Hachijin Taiheiki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eighth month, 1727

1727
Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e
32.6 × 15.7 cm (12.8 × 6.2 in)

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