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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as a Dragon Maiden Disguised a Tamanami, in the Play Oyafune Taiheiki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775

c. 1775
Color woodblock print; hosoban
29.8 × 13.3 cm (11.7 × 5.2 in)

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