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Katsukawa Shunsho

Memorial Portrait of Actor Ichikawa Ebizô II (Danjûrô II) as a Peddler of the Medicine Uirô

About 1768–70
Color woodblock print; hosoban
31.2 × 14.2 cm (12.3 × 5.6 in)

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