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The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Ashikaga Takauji in the Play Kaeribana Eiyu Taiheiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1779

c. 1779
Color woodblock print; hosoban
32.9 × 15.1 cm (13 × 5.9 in)

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