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The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo in the Play Kite Hajime Hatsugai Soga, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1774

c. 1774
Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (?)
31.3 × 14.2 cm (12.3 × 5.6 in)

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