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The Actor Asao Tamejuro I as Drunken Gotobei in the Play Yoshitsune Koshigoe Jo, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1790

c. 1790
Color woodblock print; hosoban
32.5 × 14.8 cm (12.8 × 5.8 in)

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