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The Actor Ichikawa Raizo as Soga No Goro
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The Actor Ichikawa Raizo as Soga No Goro

Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726–1792), artist · mid-1770s · color woodblock print

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Soga No Goro was the hero of a play dealing with the revenge of the Soga brothers upon the slayer of their father.

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Credit lineThe Actor Ichikawa Raizo as Soga No Goro, mid-1770s. Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726–1792). Color woodblock print; sheet: 33 x 15.2 cm (13 x 6 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Harry Packard, 1957.504
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