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The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Hachio-maru Aratora in the Play Chigo Sakura Jusan Kane, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1774

c. 1774
Color woodblock print; hosoban
32 × 14.5 cm (12.6 × 5.7 in)

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