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The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Hakamadare Yasusuke or Watanabe no Tsuna (?) in the Play Shintenno Tonoi no Kisewata (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1781 (?)

c. 1781
Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych
32.7 × 14.9 cm (12.9 × 5.9 in)

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