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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Nakamura Juzo II as Akita Jonosuke in the Play Onna Aruji Hatsuyuki no Sekai, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773

c. 1773
Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of triptych
30 × 14.4 cm (11.8 × 5.7 in)

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