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Okumura Toshinobu

The actor Fujimura Handayu II as Nowake no Mae in the play "Tategami Teika Kazura," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1719

1719
Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e
33.3 × 15.4 cm (13.1 × 6.1 in)

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