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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actors Yamashita Kinsaku II as Mutsuhana (right), Bando Mitsugoro I as Kashiwagi no Emon (center), and Nakamura Sukegoro II as Akamatsu Mushanosuke (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

c. 1771/72
Color woodblock print; from the illustrated book Yakusha Kuni no Hana (Prominent Actors of Japan)
17 × 27.2 cm (6.7 × 10.7 in)

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