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Utagawa Kunisada I

Memorial Portrait of the Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII Commemorating the Sixth Anniversary of His Death, from the diptych "Visions of Mementos in Double Mirrors (Awase kagami katami no omokage)"

1860
Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych (right: 1937.267)

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