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Katsukawa Shunkо̄

The Actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (center), and Segawa Kikunojo III (left), Possibly as Misao Gozen, Matsuya Soshichi, and the Courtesan Kojoro of Hakata, in the Play Chiyo no Hajime Ondo no Seto (Beginnings of Eternity: The Ondo Straits in the Seto Insland Sea) (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the Twenty-seventh Day of te Seventh Month, 1785

c. 1785
Color woodblock print; hosoban; triptych
32 × 14.2 cm (12.6 × 5.6 in)

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