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Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Caricatures of Laughing Actors Scribbled on a Wall (Hakumensho kabe no mudagaki)

c. 1848/51
Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych (center: 1975.476, left: 1975.475)
35.3 × 24.8 cm (13.9 × 9.8 in)

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