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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actors Tomizawa Hanzaburo II as Nagoya Sanzaemon (often called Sanza) (right), Nakamura Juzo II as Fuwa Banzaemon (center), and an Unidentified Actor as the Pickpocket Matsumoto Daishichi (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

c. 1772
Color woodblock print; from the illustrated book Yakusha Kuni no Hana (Prominent Actors of Japan)
17 × 27.3 cm (6.7 × 10.7 in)

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