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Utagawa Kunimasa

The actor Kataoka Nizaemon Vll as Iyo no Taro in the play "Seiwa Nidai Oyose Genji," performed at the Miyako Theater in the eleventh month, 1796

1796
Color woodblock print; oban
35.2 × 25.2 cm (13.9 × 9.9 in)

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