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The Actor Onoe Tamizo I as Nishikigi in the Play Mutsu no Hana Ume no Kaomise, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1769

c. 1769
Color woodblock print; hosoban
30.1 × 16.1 cm (11.9 × 6.3 in)

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