Woman playing the shamisen, Mentaki Falls, Kobe, Japan, 1898. A Japanese waitress in a kimono playing the traditional stringed instrument at the Nunobiki Falls. 'Otane die Kellnerin am Mentaki Wasserfall'. From "Rund um die Erde" [Round the Earth], written and illustrated by C. W. Allers. [Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, 1898]

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