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The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Tsunewaka-maru in the Play Iro Moyo Aoyagi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Second Month, 1775

c. 1775
Color woodblock print; hosoban
32.8 × 15 cm (12.9 × 5.9 in)

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