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Scene from a Play (woodblock print)

Scene outside a shop, with actor Nakamura Denkuro as an otokodate (plucky fellow) holding down by the neck another Nakamura actor playing a samurai. There are other institutions saying the actor can be Ichikawa Danjūrō (Harvard), Nakamura Nakazō(L) and Bandō Kumajūrō(R)(Harvard)

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