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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Osada no Taro (?) in the Play Ima o Sakari Suehiro Genji (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1768 (?)

c. 1768
Color woodblock print; hosoban
29.8 × 13.6 cm (11.7 × 5.4 in)

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