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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actors Sawamura Sojuro III as Kusunoki Tatewaki Masatsura (right), Onoe Matsusuke I as the Monk Sahei Bozu (center) and Ichikawa Yaozo III as the Prince's Servant Kusunoki Uraminosuke (left), in the Play Kumoi no Hana Yoshino no Wakamusha, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1786

c. 1786
Color woodblock print; hosoban; three sheets of a four-sheet composition
32.3 × 14.8 cm (12.7 × 5.8 in)

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