Japanese peasant pounding mochi (rice) with wooden mallet and mortar. In chonmage topknot hairstyle, loose shirt and shorts. 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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