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The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Izutsu Onnanosuke (?) in the Play Keisei Tsuki no Miyako (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Ninth Month, 1775 (?)

c. 1775
Color woodblock print; hosoban
30 × 14 cm (11.8 × 5.5 in)

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