Caption:
Japanese ensign carrying a standard, and umbrella bearer, both in helmets, kimono, leggings and sandals, carrying swords. Handcoloured woodcut by Decreef 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.