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The Actor Sawamura Kamesaburo as Nagoya Kosanza in the play "Keisei Fukubiki Nagoya," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1731

1731
Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e
30.5 × 15 cm (12 × 5.9 in)

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