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Ishikawa Toyonobu

The Actor Onoe Kikugoro I holding a puppet of the Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I

c. 1740s
Hand-colored woodblock print; vertical oban diptych, sumizuri-e
66.3 × 23.1 cm (26.1 × 9.1 in)

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