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The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Kojoro-gitsune Disguised as the Florist Okiku in the Play Mure Takamatsu Yuki no Shirahata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780

c. 1780
Color woodblock print; hosoban
31.5 × 14.7 cm (12.4 × 5.8 in)

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