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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Arashi Sangoro II as Asahina Saburo in the Play Iro Maki-e Soga no Sakazuki, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1773

c. 1773
Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych
30.4 × 14.3 cm (12 × 5.6 in)

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