열녀 이씨 (삼강행실도) - Public domain book illustration

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열녀 이씨 (삼강행실도) - Public domain book illustration

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In this illustration from the Dongguk Sinsok Samgang Haengsil-do, an illustrated book of Confucian morality tales printed by the Early Modern Korean state to inculcate Neo-Confucian values upon the general population, a woman surnamed Yi chooses to lose her hands and feet rather than her chastity by being raped.

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1619
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