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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Nakamura Juzo II as Yushichi (?) in the Play Keisei Momiji no Uchikake (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1772 (?)

c. 1772
Color woodblock print; hosoban
33 × 14.6 cm (13 × 5.7 in)

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