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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Nakamura Noshio I in a "Shak-kyo Odori" (Stone Bridge Dance), in the Play Onna Aruji Hatsuyuki no Sekai, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773

c. 1773
Color woodblock print; hosoban
32.7 × 14.2 cm (12.9 × 5.6 in)

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