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Toyohara Kunichika

写真楽屋鑑 2代目澤村 訥升|Sawamura Tosshō II (1838–86), from the series Mirror of Photographs Backstage (Shashin gakuya kagami - Sawamura Tosshō nisei)

ca. 1859–61
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
36.2 × 24.8 cm (14.3 × 9.8 in)

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