Women Carrying Pots for the Tsukuma Festival

Chinese Beauty

Beautiful Women During the Dragon Boat Festival

Courtesan Preparing for the Bon Festival

Courtesan with Fan and Koto

Women Representing the Three Cities (Osaka)

Women Representing the Three Cities (Edo)

Women Representing the Three Cities (Kyoto)

Twelve Months of Beautiful Women ( Ukiyo Bijin Junikagetsu ) : June, Tenno Festival

Twelve Months of Beautiful Women ( Ukiyo Bijin Junikagetsu ) : June, Tenno Festival

「祇園御輿はらひ　ねりもの姿」 「筑摩鍋被祭り」「新ンや　梅松」

Floating World Beauties Through the Twelve Months: The Star Festival in the Seventh Month

Woman and Cocks, from the series Series of Illustrations of Famous Unusual Women of Edo

Cover for the Picture Book 『Ehon Bijin Kao no Hinagata』( 32 Facial Types of Beautiful Women )

Cover for the Picture Book 『Ehon Bijin Kao no Hinagata』( 32 Facial Types of Beautiful Women )

Piling Portraits of 30 Unmarried Girls Carrying Nanahokai-shinji, or Seven Dishes Offering to God, in the 'Bride Procession' at the Aizu Tajima Gion Festival, Fukushima from “our face”

Protestants decorating their homes on the day of the festival celebrating theProtestant victory in the Siege of Derry

Autumn Festival at Yasukuni Shrine (No.19 of "One Hundred Scenes from Tokyo Metropolis in the Showa Period")

Piling Portraits of 60 Ascetic Monks at the Hassakusai Festival of Dewa Sanzan Shrine, Yamagata from “our face”

The Representatives Represented 45: Léon Faucher: The political enemies of Léon Faucher claim that this Minister for the Interior has not all the exterior graces. As for ourselves, who are among his most fanatical supporters, we categorically state, against all others, that Léon Faucher is fat, beautiful, good, gentle

The Representatives Represented 45: Léon Faucher: The political enemies of Léon Faucher claim that this Minister for the Interior has not all the exterior graces. As for ourselves, who are among his most fanatical supporters, we categorically state, against all others, that Léon Faucher is fat, beautiful, good, gentle

PARISIAN SKETCHES 3: － Yes, my dear mister Coffignon, it would be difficult for me to count up the number of my conquests I've always had and today still have great success with women! － To be sure [,] as for me [,] I've only ever had mine [my woman] and I still find that it's too much!

JOURNEY TO CHINA 9: A CHINESE DANCE.One is greatly mistaken if one believes the Chinese people to be giddy, joyful and the friend of pleasure: they are on the contrary serious and morose, since their greatest amusement consists in a type of lugubrious walking in which the men and women walk one in front of the other, or one beside the other, and seem to be saying among themselves: brother we should die! In order also to point to the philosophical intention behind this ceremony, the opposite of dancing, they call it: Counter-dancing

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 33: A SAINT’S DAY AND DAY OF BRACES: －Here my sweetheart... on the occasion of my Saint’s day I’ve embroidered these braces!... －(The gentleman, aside.) Good God I’ve already got eleven pairs of them in my drawer... I won’t get away with it this time for less than fifty crowns!... women really take too great an advantage of our wearing trousers, so as to make us wear braces!..

JOURNEY TO CHINA 5: CHINESE LAW. Chinese barristers strive so hard, striking so many oratorical poses that the magistrates, in order not to be distracted by the gestures of the defence and to lose nothing of his arguments, generally devote themselves to some manual work, one slices his desk with penknife cuts; the other draws crude little figures on stamped paper or fashions folded paper hens; others have recourse to a more efficient method, they close their eyes and fall into deep meditation from which the usher who shouts silence! with all his might is at great pains to extract them... it is for this reason that Chinese justice is represented with a bandage over its eyes