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The Actor Ichikawa Danzo III as Sanada no Yoichi (?) in the Play Sanada no Yoichi Banjaku no Iezuto (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1767 (?)

c. 1767
Color woodblock print; hosoban
32.4 × 15.3 cm (12.8 × 6 in)

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