Caption:
Japanese soldier wearing helmet, jacket, short kimono, trousers and sandals, with two swords in his belt. Handcoloured woodcut by Doms from Auguste Wahlen's "Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde," Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium.