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The Actor Ichikawa Omezo I as Kamei Rokuro Disguised as the Servant Dadahei in the Play Kimmenuki Genke no Kakutsuba, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1791

c. 1791
Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych (?)
32 × 14.5 cm (12.6 × 5.7 in)

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