Japanese noblewoman in ceremonial garb, 19th century. She wears junihitoe (12-layer kimono) tied with an obi belt, and wears kanzashi hairpins in her hair. Lady in dress of ceremony. After an illustration in Arnoldus Montanus's Atlas Japannensis, 1670, copied by Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl’s The World in Miniature, Japan, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1823.

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