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The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo III as Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo (?) in the Play Wada Sakamori Eiga Kagami (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1773 (?)

c. 1773
Color woodblock print; hosoban
33 × 14.7 cm (13 × 5.8 in)

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