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Actor Otani Hiroemon III as Hige no Ikyû in “The Soga Play: Announcement of the Spring Season by the Bush Warbler” (“Hitokidori harutsuge Soga”)
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Actor Otani Hiroemon III as Hige no Ikyû in “The Soga Play: Announcement of the Spring Season by the Bush Warbler” (“Hitokidori harutsuge Soga”)

Katsukawa Shunshô 勝川 春章, Japanese, 1726-1792 · About 1764 · Color woodblock prints; hosoban diptych (?)

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Credit lineActor Otani Hiroemon III as Hige no Ikyû in “The Soga Play: Announcement of the Spring Season by the Bush Warbler” (“Hitokidori harutsuge Soga”). About 1764. Katsukawa Shunshô 勝川 春章, Japanese, 1726-1792. The Art Institute of Chicago, Frederick W. Gookin Collection. CC0.
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