Caption:
Costumes of Japan, 1800s. A whale-meat seller with yoke and baskets, parasol, knife and balance 1, civil officer with katana (sword) 2, woman in kimono and obi, kanzashi (hairpins) in her hair carrying a child on her back 3,4, and man pounding mochi (rice) with wooden mallet and mortar 5. Copied from illustrations by Georg Langsdorff in Reise um die Welt, 1812. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813.