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The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as the Courtesan Toyama of Tsuruga in the Play Keisei Tsuki no Miyako, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eighth Month, 1775

c. 1775
Color woodblock print; hosoban
31.8 × 14.1 cm (12.5 × 5.6 in)

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