JOURNEY TO CHINA 8: WOULD YOU MARRY... IN CHINA. A Chinese woman who brings nothing to her husband places the household in difficulties because her clothes are very costly. / A Chinese woman who brings something, places the household in embarrassing circumstances because her clothes cost more. / A Chinese woman who brings many things places the household in misery: her whims devour everything!
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![JOURNEY TO CHINA 3: THE CUSTOMS. Having arrived at customs, the traveller is examined, ransacked, undressed and rifled -His clothes are not admitted to [this country], since they make them in China; -His wig [is], because they do not make them; -His boots, because leather is prohibited; -His clyster-pump, because it is a mechanical object with a suspect use... they seize everything and make him pay duty for the rest, after which, he is as free as the air..](https://search.artmuseums.go.jp/jpeg/small/nmwa/0041360001.jpg)
JOURNEY TO CHINA 3: THE CUSTOMS. Having arrived at customs, the traveller is examined, ransacked, undressed and rifled -His clothes are not admitted to [this country], since they make them in China; -His wig [is], because they do not make them; -His boots, because leather is prohibited; -His clyster-pump, because it is a mechanical object with a suspect use... they seize everything and make him pay duty for the rest, after which, he is as free as the air..
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

Tomb Sculpture (Haniwa): Woman Holding a Stick in Her Right Hand
Tokyo National Museum
Integrated Collections Database of the National Museums, Japan

Woman Seated in a Chair
Edo-Tokyo Museum
Tokyo Museum Collection

Woman Sitting in a Chair
Edo-Tokyo Museum
Tokyo Museum Collection

Administrative execution day. A woman who wraps a chain around her body and resists
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Tokyo Museum Collection

IN CHINA 21: To think that there is what the French call Chinese!..
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

(Man Fishing a Woman from TV)
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Tokyo Museum Collection

Seated Woman in a Fur Coat
Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
MoMAS Collection

Geisha striking a pose in a striped kimono. A dresser is in her room
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Tokyo Museum Collection

JOURNEY TO CHINA 6: CHINESE PROPRIETY. In this country they have a singular idea of propriety!... the most chaste young girl, the most upstanding woman do not blush, by a prodigious exaggeration of forms, to call attention to a certain quarter to which they give the appearance of a veritable air-balloon... they call that a bustle..
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

PARISIAN MEN IN 1852. 1: The new Talma cape, thus named because it gives to him who wears it an utterly comic appearance
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

Seated Woman in a Black Dress
Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
MoMAS Collection

Woman and Child with a Twig-laden Stroller, the Knobelsdorff Bridge in the Background
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Tokyo Museum Collection

Bust of a Woman, Head Inclined to the Right
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Tokyo Museum Collection

Affectation 8: (He reads a letter) A meeting, it could be from that little Mrs. Giraud!... yes... but perhaps it's from her husband who wants to nab me and give me a thrashing
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan
![[Suspended in an Arch]](https://museumcollection.tokyo/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/1975-00-7134-000.jpg)
[Suspended in an Arch]
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Tokyo Museum Collection

Woman after a Bath and a Woman Cuddling Her Child from the Series Genre Scenes of the East
Tokyo National Museum
Integrated Collections Database of the National Museums, Japan

Seven Variations of the 'Iroha' Alphabet: 'Ku' as in 'Kumo no Taema'. Role: Narukami (Played as a Woman)
Edo-Tokyo Museum
Tokyo Museum Collection

Strangers in Paris 18: The hat that one brings back from Paris: You might well say that that hat will make a great impression in Landerneau!... eighty five francs! it's expensive, duckie... you give yourself marabout stork feathers, but it's I who get plucked!..
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

The Blue-stockings 22: The blue-stocking declaiming her play -Act 6 Scene 1... the theatre shows a tiger asleep in the desert... Rosalba barely drags herself forward, and does so with even greater difficulty because of her five children and her aged father: -Rosalba falls at the foot of a date-palm covered with coconuts, and cries in despair: Oh heaven, when will our torments finish. -The entire audience (in a low voice): ‘and ours, too, when will they finish, oh heaven!’
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan
Things Suspended in the Sky
Mie Prefectural Art Museum
Mie Prefectural Art Museum Collections

Los Caprichos: Even thus he cannot make her out
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan
![IN CHINA 8: A Chinese warrior patrol -having taken too literally the order given them to scout out... [the enemy's movement...]](https://search.artmuseums.go.jp/jpeg/small/nmwa/0041530001.jpg)
IN CHINA 8: A Chinese warrior patrol -having taken too literally the order given them to scout out... [the enemy's movement...]
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

TENANTS AND LANDLORDS 12: Robber of a landlord... who doesn't want to have repairs done for me except in fine weather!..
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan
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