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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Ogata no Saburo Disguised as Matsuura Saemon in the Play Ichi no Tomi Tsuki no Kaomise, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1774

c. 1774
Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition (?)
29.8 × 14.2 cm (11.7 × 5.6 in)

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