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Buncho, artist
Japanese, active 1765 - 1792
The actor Matsumoto Koshiro III (DanjuroV) as Soga no Goro Disguised as a Commoner, Standing Outside an Establishment called Choya (The Butterfly), 1769 - 1770
color woodcut
30.9 x 14.8 cm (image)
Carlotta Mabury Collection 1964.141.571

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Artist Biography: Ippitsusai Buncho. Go=Buncho, Hajintei, Soyoan. Ukiyo-e painter and printmaker in Edo. A samurai, persuaded in later life by his samurai friends to abandon printmaking.

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