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The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Watanabe Kiou Takiguchi (?) in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1770 (?)

c. 1770
Color woodblock print; illustration cut from Ehon Zoku Butai Ogi (1778)
24.9 × 16.3 cm (9.8 × 6.4 in)

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