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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Onoe Tamizo I as Sotoku Taishi (?) Disguised as a Young Building Worker, in the Play Shitenno-ji Nobori Kuyo, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1773

c. 1773
Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych
29.4 × 13 cm (11.6 × 5.1 in)

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