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Katsukawa Shun'ei

Act One: Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

c. 1795
Color woodblock print; koban
23.8 × 17.5 cm (9.4 × 6.9 in)

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