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The Actor Arashi Hinasuke I as Watanabe Choshichi Tonau in the Play Tokimekuya O-Edo no Hatsuyuki (Thriving Now: The First Snow of Edo), Performed at the Morita Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1780

c. 1780
Color woodblock print; chuban
26.3 × 19.5 cm (10.4 × 7.7 in)

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