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The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okaru in Act Seven of the Play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Third Day of the Fourth Month, 1769

c. 1769
Color woodblock print; hosoban
32 × 14.3 cm (12.6 × 5.6 in)

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