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Katsukawa Shun'ei

Dance Interlude “The Wife from Shinoda Forest" (“Shinodazuma”) in “Mirror of Ashiya Dôman and Ôuchi” (“Dôman Ôuchi kagami”), from the series Designs for Patchwork Pictures (Oshie-gata)

About 1795
Color woodblock print; ôban
37.5 × 24 cm (14.8 × 9.4 in)

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