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Katsukawa Shun'ei

The Actor Nakamura Kumetaro II Greeting the Audience on His Arrival from Osaka at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1790

c. 1790
Color woodblock print; hosoban
29.5 × 13.2 cm (11.6 × 5.2 in)

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