Ichikawa Danjuro IX as Benkei, by Toshihide Migita

An image of Ichikawa Danjūrō IX as Benkei. Ichikawa Danjūrō IX as Benkei. Portraits of Sansho (Sansho goshi). Toshihide, Migita (Japanese, 1862-1925). Colour print from woodblocks, with burnishing and embossing, 1893.

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Ichikawa Danjūrō IX as Benkei. Ichikawa Danjūrō IX as Benkei. Portraits of Sansho (Sansho goshi). Toshihide, Migita (Japanese, 1862-1925). Colour print from woodblocks, with burnishing and embossing, 1893.

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Accession Number: P.83-2014
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1494 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 222.16kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1

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