Double-sided wooden printing block: on one side the keyblock to one of Hiroshige's Tōtō meishō sakatsukushi no uchi images, on the reverse the keyblock to Twenty Warriors by Utagawa Yoshitora(?)
19th century
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Dimensions
27.2 x 39.9 x 1.2 cm (10 11/16 x 15 11/16 x 1/2 in.)
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