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The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as a Thunder Goddess in the Play Onna Narukami, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1770

c. 1770
Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition (?)
31.2 × 14.3 cm (12.3 × 5.6 in)

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