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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Osuwa in the Play Koi no Yosuga Kanagaki Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fourth Monther, 1789

c. 1789
Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (?)
32.1 × 14.7 cm (12.6 × 5.8 in)

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