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Actor Bandô Mitsugorô VI as Arajishi Otokonosuke, from the series Photographic Mirror of Actors (Haiyû shashin kyô)

(Japanese, 1833–1904)
(Japanese)
1870 (Meiji 3), 5th month
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsVertical ôban; 36.1 × 24 cm (14 3/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Jo-Ann Edinburg Pinkowitz and Richard Pinkowitz
Accession number2019.2215
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
Provenance2018, sold by Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints, Los Angeles, to Jo-Ann and Richard Pinkowitz, Boston; 2019, gift of Jo-Ann and Richard Pinkowitz to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 11, 2019)
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