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The Actor Arashi Otohachi I as Numataro, the Retainer of Utou Yasukata, in Part Two of the Play Kogane no Hana Gaijin Aramusha (Gold Flowers: The Triumphal Return of Fierce Warriors), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1766

c. 1766
Color woodblock print; hosoban
32 × 15.4 cm (12.6 × 6.1 in)

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