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The Actor Nakamura Juzo II as Asahara Hachiro Disguised as the Servant of a Princely Family, in the Play Onna Aruji Hatsuyuki no Sekai, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773

c. 1773
Color woodblock print; hosoban
30.2 × 14.8 cm (11.9 × 5.8 in)

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