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The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Aigo no Waka in the Play Chigo Sakura Jusan Kane, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1774

c. 1774
Color woodblock print; hosoban
32.3 × 14 cm (12.7 × 5.5 in)

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