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The Actor Nakamura Riko I as the Courtesan Wakamatsu (?) in the Play Gohiiki Kanjincho (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1773 (?)

c. 1773
Color woodblock print; hosoban
32.3 × 15.1 cm (12.7 × 5.9 in)

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