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Katsukawa Shunkо̄

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Lady Yaehata in the Play Sanga no Sho Haru no Hanayome, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1787

c. 1787
Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych
31.8 × 14.4 cm (12.5 × 5.7 in)

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