Japanese servant carrying his master's effects, basket, box and slippers, on a bamboo pole. Man in chonmage topknot hairstyle, loose shirt, trousers, bare feet. After an illustration by Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff in Adam Johann von Krusenstern's Reise um die Welt, 1812. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl’s The World in Miniature, Japan, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1823.

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