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The Actor Otani Hiroemon III as the Renegade Monk Dainichibo in the Play Tsukisenu Haru Hagoromo Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in theThird Month, 1777

c. 1777
Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych
30.8 × 13.8 cm (12.1 × 5.4 in)

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