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Utagawa Kuniyoshi

The actors Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tada Kurodo Yukitsuna and Bando Shuka as the ghost of Naruto no Mae

c. 1847
Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych
36.8 × 25.4 cm (14.5 × 10 in)

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