Japanese sailor in uniform, 19th century. In chonmage topknot hairstyle, haori coat with full sleeves, short checkerboard trousers, with 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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