Figure 1.-- Here we have an unidentifed family portrait. The family name may be Kyoudai. We would assume that the youths here come from a very prosperous moderizing family. There are three boys and a girl. They all look to be teenagers. Notably the male youths here wear western clothes and the and the female traditional clothes. We believe that this was quite common at the time.

Here we have an unidentifed family portrait. The family name may be Kyoudai.We would assume that the youths here are brrother and sister and come from a very prosperous moderizing family. There are three boys and a girl. They all look to be teenagers. Notably the male youths here wear western clothes and the and the female traditional clothes. We believe that this was quite common at the time. The suits and neckwear the boys wear suggest the 1870s to us, but we are not at all sure. This would be a very early stage of the Menji Restoration and the modernization of Japan.

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