Costumes of Japan, 1800s. A male servant carrying luggage 1, a sailor in uniform 2, an unmarried woman with kanzashi (hairpins), kimono and fan 3, male servant carrying a child 4, peasant in straw hat and coat 5, and man in winter robes with hood, happi coat and kimono 6. The men in chonmage hairstyle. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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