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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Katsuhei, Servant of a Princely Family, in the Play Uta Kurabe Tosei Moyo, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1779

c. 1779
Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition
32.8 × 15 cm (12.9 × 5.9 in)

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