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A work made of color woodblock print; from the illustrated book yakusha kuni no hana (prominent actors of japan).

The Actors Otani Hiroemon III as Shinagawa Okaminosuke (right), and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Arashishi Otokonosuke (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

c. 1771/72

Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792

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Color woodblock print; from the illustrated book Yakusha Kuni no Hana (Prominent Actors of Japan)

Arts of Asia