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The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Matsuo-maru in the Play Ayatsuri Kabuki Ogi, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1768

c. 1768
Color woodblock print; hosoban
32 × 14.5 cm (12.6 × 5.7 in)

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