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The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Oiso no Tora in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1769

c. 1769
Color woodblock print; hosoban
30.3 × 14.6 cm (11.9 × 5.7 in)

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