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Okumura Masanobu

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Ike no Shoji in the play "Oguri Choseiden," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1725

1725
Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e
32 × 15.9 cm (12.6 × 6.3 in)

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