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The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as a Monk, Raigo Ajari, in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato (Forest of the Nue Monster: Target of the Eleventh Month), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1770

c. 1770
Color woodblock print; hosoban
31 × 14.6 cm (12.2 × 5.7 in)

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