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Matsumoto Koshiro IV and Nakayama Tomisaburo, the left hand sheet of a triptych entitled “Six Actors Likened to the Immortal Poets" ("Yakusha Rokkasen")
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Matsumoto Koshiro IV and Nakayama Tomisaburo, the left hand sheet of a triptych entitled “Six Actors Likened to the Immortal Poets" ("Yakusha Rokkasen")

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿, Japanese, 1753 (?)-1806 · c. 1784 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

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Credit lineMatsumoto Koshiro IV and Nakayama Tomisaburo, the left hand sheet of a triptych entitled “Six Actors Likened to the Immortal Poets" ("Yakusha Rokkasen"). c. 1784. Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿, Japanese, 1753 (?)-1806. The Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. CC0.
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