Japanese fisherman's wife of Nagasaki, 19th century. She wears her hair up, a floral-pattern kimono and obi. 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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