The Actors Bando Mitsugoro I as Hata no Kawakatsu (right), and Otani Hiroemon III as the Manservant (Yakko) Gansuke (left), in the Play Miya-bashira Iwao no Butai (Shrine Pillars on a Stone Base), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month, 1773, c. 1773, Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章, Japanese, 1726-1792, Japan, Color woodblock print, hosoban, diptych, x cm (12 5/16 x 6 1/8 in.) (right), x cm (12 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.) (left

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The Actors Bando Mitsugoro I as Hata no Kawakatsu (right), and Otani Hiroemon III as the Manservant (Yakko) Gansuke (left), in the Play Miya-bashira Iwao no Butai (Shrine Pillars on a Stone Base), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month, 1773, c. 1773, Katsukawa Shunsho ?? ??, Japanese, 1726-1792, Japan, Color woodblock print, hosoban, diptych, x cm (12 5/16 x 6 1/8 in.) (right), x cm (12 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.) (left)

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