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Katsukawa Shun'ei

The Actor Nakayama Tomisaburo I as Lady Tokiwa (Tokiwa Gozen) (?) in the Play Kimmenuki Genke no Kakutsuba (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1791 (?)

c. 1791
Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych (?)
30.8 × 13.9 cm (12.1 × 5.5 in)

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