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Katsukawa Shunkо̄

The Actor Ichikawa Komazo III as Katanaya Hanshichi in the Play Heike Hyobanki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1789

c. 1789
Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (?)
32.3 × 13.8 cm (12.7 × 5.4 in)

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