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Hana kurabe tenarai kagami no uchi, Sakuramaru. English: The actor Onoe Kikugorō III in the role of Sakuramaru. One of a set of triplets who grows up in the circle of the great calligrapher Sugawara Michizane, Sakuramaru enters the service of a prince. Eventually he performs ritual suicide because he feels responsible for the unjust exiling of Sugawara. Sakuramaru is wearing a cherry-blossom patterned kimono (sakura means 'cherry tree'). . September 1852 (late Edo). 755 Kagaya Katsugoro of Hongo - Sugawara denju tenarai kagami - Walters 95765
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