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The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Moshio, Wife of Ito Sukekiyo, in the Play Izu-goyomi Shibai no Ganjitsu, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772

c. 1772
Color woodblock print; hosoban
30.2 × 13.8 cm (11.9 × 5.4 in)

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