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The Actor Nakamura Utaemon I as Monk Seigen of Kiyomizu Temple in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1769

c. 1769
Color woodblock print; hosoban
31 × 14.9 cm (12.2 × 5.9 in)

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