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The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Ashikaga Takauji in the Play Kumoi no Hana Yoshino no Wakamusha, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1786

c. 1786
Color woodblock print; hosoban
31.5 × 14.7 cm (12.4 × 5.8 in)

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