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Okumura Masanobu

The Dressing Room of a Puppet Theater, the table of contents from the series "Famous Scenes from Japanese Puppet Plays (Yamato irotake)"

c. 1705/06
Woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e
27.1 × 37.8 cm (10.7 × 14.9 in)

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