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Actors Iwai Kumesaburō III as Shichidayū's daughter Oyone (R), Ichikawa Kuzō II as Senzaki Yagorō (C), Nakamura Utaemon IV as the peasant Yasaku (L) in the play Chūkō homare no Takanawa, performed at the Nakamura Theater, 3rd month 1848 | Cultural Japan