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Katsukawa Shunkо̄

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as the Boatman Jirosaku in the Play Oyafune Taiheiki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775

c. 1775
Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (?)
32.7 × 14.8 cm (12.9 × 5.8 in)

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