YOSHITSUNE SENBON ZAKURA
(義経千本桜)

 
Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Igami no Gonta (いがみの権太)

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
Musume Osato (娘おさと)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place/: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/1900
Print Date: 03/1900
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the National Theatre of Japan        
 
 
 
 

             
            Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
            Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)

            Onoe Eizaburô V (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
            Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

            Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
            Minamoto Yoshitsune (源義経)

            Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 04/01/1900
            Print Date: 04/1900?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Image courtesy of Hara Shobo
 
 
 
 

Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小團次; 市川小團次) as
Hayami no Tôta ( 早見藤太)
    
Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左團次; 市川左団次) as
Genkurô Kitsune (源九郎狐)

Ichikawa Enshô  II (市川莚升; 市川莚舛) as
Koshimoto Yayoi (腰元弥生)
    
Ichikawa Yonezô IV.5 (市川米蔵) as
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)
[Yoshinoyama (吉野山) dance scene]
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/28/02
Print Date: 06/28/02
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the National Theatre of Japan
 
 
 
 

[Shizuka Gozen (静御前) Dancing]
 

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Date: 01/1904
Artist: Kobori Tomone (小堀鞆音)
Published: Bungei Kurabu (文芸倶楽部), Vol. 10, No. 3 (Jan. 1904)
Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 

  Sawamura Tosshô III (沢村訥升) as
  Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)
 
  Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
  Shizuka Gozen (I静御前)
 
  Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次)
  Hangan Minamoto no Yoshitsune (判官 源義経)
 
 Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
 Performance Place: ?
 Performance Date: ?
 Print Date: 1905
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)

Note: I have not found a contemporaneous stage performance with this particular cast.
 
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Shizuka Gozen (静御前)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)
 
Plays: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura  (義経千本桜); Retsujo Shikinami (烈女敷浪); 
Futaribakama (二人袴); Yuki no Akebono Homare Akagaki (雪曙誉赤垣); Hoken Girahi (保険ぎらひ)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/21/08
Print Date: 05/21/08
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

[Costume Competition Sugoroku] Ishô Kei Nigao Sugoroku (衣裳競似顔双六)

Print Date: 10/21/11
Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)
Medium: Woodblock printed sugoroku
Personal Collection

Note: Published by Daimaru Gofukumise (大丸呉服店).

       
        24. Satô Shirô Tadanobu (佐藤四郎忠信)/
        Genkurô Kitsune (源九郎狐)
                     
        Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
        Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)  
 
 

[Popular Costume Sugoroku Game] Furidashi Ishô Ninki Sugoroku (振出衣裳人気双六)

Print Date: 11/20/1912
Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)
Medium: Woodblock printed sugoroku
Image courtesy of Dr. Osamu Nagai

Note: Published by Daimaru Gofukumise (大丸呉服店).
 

   
    26. ? as Satô Shirô Tadanobu (佐藤四郎忠信)/
    Genkurô Kitsune (源九郎狐)
                     
     Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
     Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)

                
                33. ? as Igami no Gonta (いがみの権太)

                     
                Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
                Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)
 
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本櫻); On'na Tenka (女天下); Tsuchigumo (土蜘蛛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/13
Print Date: 11/1913?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)  as
Taira Tomomori (平知盛)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Minamoto Yoshitsune (源義経)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection

Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Minamoto Yoshitsune (源義経)
 
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/15
Print Date: 09/1915
Arist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection

                 
 
Plays: Igami no Gonta (いがみの權太); Suôotoshi (素襖落); Zôho Tenjinki (天神記);
Tôkaidô Hizakurige (東海道膝栗毛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/16
Print Date: 08/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Igami-no-gonta (いがみの権太)

Play: Igami no Gonta ( いがみの權太)
[Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)]
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/01/16
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Series: [Famous Actors From East and West
Stage Picture Portraits]
Tôzai Meiyû Butai Esugata
(東西名優 舞臺絵すがた)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Kikugorô VI performed this role at the
Teikoku Gekijô in Tokyo in August 1916.  There
was a production at the Minami-za in Kyoto in
June 1916, but I have not been able to confirm
whether Kikugorô VI was in the cast.
 

 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Tananobu (忠信)
 
Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/03/18
Print Date: 02/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩) #6
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Igami no Gonta (いがみの権太)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/05/19
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄;
藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro
Set #1 or 2?]
Personal Collection

Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Igami no Gonta (いがみの権太)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/05/19
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄;
藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿 第二編) #?
Courtesy of FujiArts.com
 
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Igami no Gonta (いがみの権太)


Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/05/19
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #2]
Personal Collection

Plays: Rokuhara Eiga Monogatari (六波羅栄華物語); Yoshitsune Senbon Sakura (義経千本桜);
Yamomegarasu (病鴉); Fujitomoe (藤鞆絵); Kiku Jidô (菊慈童); Echigo Jishi (越後獅子)
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date:  10/05/20
Print Date: 10/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center
 
 
 

Plays: Rokuhara Eiga Monogatari (六波羅栄華物語); Yoshitsune Senbon Sakura (義経千本桜);
Yamomegarasu (病鴉); Fujitomoe (藤鞆絵); Kiku Jidô (菊慈童); Echigo Jishi (越後獅子)
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date:  10/05/20
Print Date: 10/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center 

               
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助)
Hayami no Tôta (逸見藤太)

Play: Michiyuki Hatsune no Tabi (道行初音旅),
Act IV, Scene 1 of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/20
Print Date: 1921
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Sadatô Munetô (貞任宗任); Hakone Reigen Izari no Adauchi (箱根霊験躄仇討);
Nagasone Kotetsu (長曽禰虎徹); Michiyuki Hatsune Tabi (道行初音旅)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/20
Print Date: 12/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

 
Plays: Kongen Kusazuribiki (根元草摺曳);  Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館); Ataka no Seki
(安宅關); Tsuchiya Chikara (土屋主税);  Tôjûrô no Koi (藤十郎の恋); Hatsune no Tabiji (初音の旅路)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/21
Print Date: 04/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Kongen Kusazuribiki (根元草摺曳);  Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館); Ataka no Seki
(安宅關); Tsuchiya Chikara (土屋主税);  Tôjûrô no Koi (藤十郎の恋); Hatsune no Tabiji (初音の旅路)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/21
Print Date: 04/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Igami no Gonta (いがみの権太)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/05/23
Print Date: 03/1923?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔似顔繪), #14
Personal Collection
 
 

               
Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若; 實川延若) as
Igami-no-gonta (いがみの権太)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1923?
Print Date: 1923
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: There was a production at the Minami-za, Kyoto in August
1923, but I have not yet confirmed that Enjaku II was in that
production.  There were other productions that year in Tokyo and
Osaka as well.
 
 
 

               
Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若; 實川延若) as
Igami-no-gonta (いがみの権太)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1923?
Print Date: 1923
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Personal Collection

Note: This is a color variant test print.   See the grey
checked kimono version for additional information.

                   
Nakamura Shikaku II (中村芝鶴)  as
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Horikawa Gosho (堀川御所), Act I, Scene 3 of
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/24
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#16)
*Personal Collection
 
Note: Shikaku II also performed this role at the Asakusa
Shochiku-za, Tokyoin January 1926.  I cannot rule out the
possibility that this print reflects that performance.
 
 
 

Onoe Eizaburô VII
(尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
Osato (お里)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/12/24
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope (pochibukuro) [Set OG1]
Personal Collection

Note: Eizaburô VII died on May 7,
1926.
 
 
 
 

                   
Bandô Shuchô III (坂東秀調) as
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Michiyuki Hatsune no Tabi (道行初音旅), Act IV,
Scene 1 of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/06/25
Print Date: 1925
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#7)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Maimôsu Iro no Tanemaki (舞奏いろの蒔種); Ehon Taikôki  (本太功記);
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本櫻0; Rakuhoku no Aki (洛北の秋);
Sono Kouta Yume mo Yoshiwara (権八小紫其小唄夢廓)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/25
Print Date: 11/1925?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

               
Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: 11/15/25
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Hyakumenshû
(歌舞伎 隈取百面種), Vol. 2
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
Ichikawa Sumizô VI (市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵)
as Yasuke (弥助)

Play: "Sushiya" Act III, Scene III of
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/1926
Print Date:  02/1926?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Sumizô VI also portrayed Yasuke in a production at
the Hongô-za in March 1923.  I cannot rule out the
possibility that this print reflects that performance.
 
 

               
Jitsukawa Enjaku II  (実川延若; 實川延若) as
Igami no Gonta (いがみの権太)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/19/26
Print Date:  02/1926?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Enjaku II also performed this role at the Hōgaku-za in
November 1924.   I cannot rule out the possibility that this
print reflects that performance.

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Bunraku-za,
Osaka
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 04/20/26
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: No. 2 of Nihon Meibutsu
Ôsaka Bunraku-za Ningyô Gashû
(日本名物 大阪文楽座人形画集)
Images courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

   Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)
'

   Tsuzumi Tôta (鼓藤太)
'

   Shizuka Gozen (静御前)
'

Placement of characters on stage design
'

  Stage Design
'

                    
Plays: Katteguchi (勝手口); Bô Shibari (棒しばり); Nagauta Hayashi (長唄囃子);
Kaidan Botan Dôrô (怪異談牡丹燈籠); Shichimai Tsuzuki Hana no Sugatae
(七枚続花の姿絵); Tachi Nusubito (太刀盗人); Onnagori Oshie no Mazebari
(御名残押絵交張); Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  09/03/26
Print Date: 09/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
 
 
 

Plays: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura  (義經千本櫻); Sannin Katawa (三人片輪);
Hachiman Matsuri Yomiya no Nigiwai (八幡祭小望月賑)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/02/27
Print Date: 07/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura  (義經千本櫻); Sannin Katawa (三人片輪);
Hachiman Matsuri Yomiya no Nigiwai (八幡祭小望月賑)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/02/27
Print Date: 07/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.
 
 
 

               
Antique Make-up for a Fox (古代狐の隈)


Role: Tadanobu (忠信)
Play: Michiyuki Hatsune no Tabi (道行初音旅),
Act IV, Scene 1 of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Print Date: 04/13/29
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 4, No. 72
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
Flame of Ancient Use (Kayen-kuma)  (古代火炎隈)

Role: Tadanobu (忠信)
Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Print Date: 07/13/29
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 7, No. 58
Personal Collection
 
 

                   
From top left to lower right:
 
1. Tanaka Kôka (田中耕花): Motome (求女) in
Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
2.  Machida Shian (町田紫庵): ? in ?
3.  Takarada Nao (宝田直): Sekibê (関兵衛) in
Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積戀雪関扉)
4.   *mi Tashushi (*見立志): Sumizome (墨染) in
Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積戀雪関扉)
5.  Kitada Haruhiko (北田晴彦): Oiwa (お岩) in
Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan (東海道四谷怪談)
6.  Inoue Matsuyoshi (井上松芳): Goemon (五右工門) in
Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五山桐)
7.  Uchikawa Eihô (内川英峰): Hanaregoma Chôkichi
(放駒長吉) in Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記)
8.  Tsuda Kôraku (津田行楽):  ? in ?
9.  Higuchi Soyama (樋口蘇山): Urazato Tokijirô
(浦里時次郎) in Akegarasu (明烏)
10. Shirai Kôyuki (白井皎雪): ? in ?
11. Mitamura Kaoru (三田村薫): Tadanobu (忠信) in
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
12. Minami Kichijirô (南吉次郎): Urazato (浦里) in
Akegarasu (明烏)

Print Date: 10/1933
Personal Collection

Note: Most of these artists are known matchbook cover/
adveritsing label artists.  In light of the title cartouche, it
is possible that this is the first panel of a triptych that
cumulatively contains 36 actor portraits.  The seal on
this print is the same as one found on two woodblock
printed postcards that resemble two 1925 prints by
Miyake Hanayama, and is likely a publisher seal.
 
 
 
 

                   
Tadanobu (忠信)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon
Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: 10/1933
Artist: Mitamura Kaoru (三田村薫)
Personal Collection
 
Note: This is a close up of the
image from the oban sheet.

                   
Tadanobu (忠信)
 
Play: Yoshitsune Senbon
Zakura (義経千本桜)
Date: c. 1933
Artist: Mitamura Kaoru (三田村薫)
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
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Nakamura Moshio IV (中村もしほ) as Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Yûraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1936
Print Date: 1936?
Artist: Tachibana Sayume (橘小夢)
Title: [Peach Moon] Momotsuki (もも月)
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Tokaiya Ginpei (渡海屋銀平), in reality
Zen-Chunagon Tomomori (前中納言知盛)
Senbon Zakura Daimotsu no Ura (千本桜大物浦)

Play: Act II, Scene 4 of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Date: 1939
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Series: Gekikadô Zuihitsu (劇雅堂随筆)
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