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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as the Renegade Monk Dainichibo Soliciting Alms, in the Play Edo Meisho Midori Soga (Famous Places in Edo: A Green Soga), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fifteenth Day of the First Month, 1779

c. 1779
Color woodblock print; hosoban
30.2 × 14 cm (11.9 × 5.5 in)

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