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The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Hiranoya Tokubei (?) in the Play Wada Sakamori Eiga Kagami (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1773 (?)

c. 1773
Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (?)
29.7 × 14.2 cm (11.7 × 5.6 in)

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