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Katsukawa Shun'ei

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Shirai Gompachi in the Play Gozen-gakari Sumo Soga, Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the Second Month, 1793

c. 1793
Color woodblock print; right sheet of hosoban diptych (left: 1928.1028)
30.5 × 13.6 cm (12 × 5.4 in)

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