Japanese woman in kimono, obi, sandals, with kanzashi (hairpins) in her hair, carrying a child on her back. Wife of an artisan and her baby. Woman & child. 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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Size: 3331px × 6154px
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