Costumes of Japan circa 1800, including a priest, women in geta (wooden sandals), a man in formal robes with cane, a beggar monk, two Japanese men with chonmage hairstyles, kataginu and hakama, carrying swords, and a soldier. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.
Costumes of Japan circa 1800, including a priest, women in geta (wooden sandals), a man in formal robes with cane, a beggar monk, two Japanese men with chonmage hairstyles, kataginu and hakama, carrying swords, and a soldier. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.