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The Actor Ichikawa Komazo II as Soga no Juro Sukenari Disguised as a Fox Trapper in the Play Kagami-ga-ike Omokage Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1770

c. 1770
Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych
31 × 14.4 cm (12.2 × 5.7 in)

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