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The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Yanone Goro in the Play Kuruwa-gayoi Komachi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1781

c. 1781
Color woodblock print; hosoban
32.1 × 14.9 cm (12.6 × 5.9 in)

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