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Okumura Masanobu

Large Perspective Picture of the Kaomise Performance on the Kabuki Stage (Shibai kyogen butai kaomise o uki-e)

c. 1740
Hand-colored woodblock print; horizontal o-oban, beni-e
46.8 × 68 cm (18.4 × 26.8 in)

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