Japanese civil officer. With his hair in chonmage topknot, long haori coat over kimono, two katana swords in his belt, sandals. After an illustration in Arnoldus Montanus's Atlas Japannensis, 1670. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl’s The World in Miniature, Japan, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1823.

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