Binshiken, from the series 'Mirror of the Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety', by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

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Accession Number: P.638-1991
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Photographer name: Michael Jones
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Captured: 2012:07:27 11:51:04

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