(from right) Sawamura Sōjūrō V as Nitta Shiro Tadatsune, Matsumoto Koshirō VI as Goshaku Somegorō, Iwai Kumesaburō III as Yaoya Oshichi, and unidentified actor as a groom; play: Sono mukashi koi no edozome

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