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The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Watanabe no Tsuna in the Play Shitenno Tonoi no Kisewata, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781

c. 1781
Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych
31.4 × 12.5 cm (12.4 × 4.9 in)

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