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The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Osaku in the Play Sayo no Nakayama Hiiki no Tsurigane, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1790

c. 1790
Color woodblock print; hosoban
29.4 × 13.8 cm (11.6 × 5.4 in)

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