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Shunshosai Hokucho

The Actor Nakamura Matsue III as Keisei Agemaki

early 19th century
Color woodblock print; oban, part of multisheet composition (another sheet: 1968.393)
36.5 × 24.1 cm (14.4 × 9.5 in)

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