Actors Representing the Feat of Asahina Breaking the Armer of Soga no Goro (Hirakawa-cho Yamamoto-cho kusazuribiki odori yatai) from the series The Festival of the Sanno Shrine (Sanno go-sairei)

People: Torii, Kiyonaga
Time: 1780
Owner Organization: Art Institute of Chicago

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