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The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Nijo no Kisaki (?) in the Play Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1770 (?)

c. 1770
Color woodblock print; hosoban
32.3 × 14.9 cm (12.7 × 5.9 in)

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