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The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as the thunder god, an incarnation of Kan Shojo, in the play "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami," performed at the Morita Theater in the third month, 1780

c. 1780
Color woodblock print; hosoban
32.4 × 14.3 cm (12.8 × 5.6 in)

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