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Katsukawa Shun'ei

The Actor Asao Tamejuro I as Drunken Gotobei in the Play Yoshitsune Koshigoe Jo, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1790

c. 1790
Color woodblock print; hosoban
30.6 × 14 cm (12 × 5.5 in)

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