Theater Portrait Pairs for the Iroha Syllabary: Horibe Yasubei Taketsune and Omitsu

Theater Portrait Pairs for the Iroha Syllabary: Yokogawa Kanpei Munenori and Doguya Yoshibei

Theater Portrait Pairs for the Iroha Syllabary: Yoshida Chuzaemon Kanesuke and Koshitsu Kaoyo

Theater Portrait Pairs for the Iroha Syllabary: Otaka Gengo Tadado and Takarai Kikaku

Theater Portrait Pairs for the Iroha Syllabary: Akagaki Genzo Masataka and Shioda’s Wife, Yukigyo

Yamato Warriors: Horibe Yasubei Taketsune, from Chushingura

Horibe Yasubei Taketsune (Object); Gishi yonjunana zu (Series)

No. 9 Horibe Yasubei Taketsune (Object); Seichu gishin meimei kagami (Series)

The True Loyal Retainers　: So, Horibe Yasubei Takeyasu

「真像劇場　伊呂波一対」 「行年三十四歳　堀部安兵衛武庸」「堀部弥兵衛娘おみつ　坂東しうか」

Strangers in Paris 16: The Daguerreotype portrait: －Here is the work of the sun..., how coloured it is, hm?... how warm... and all in three seconds! －Well, true...looking at that, you wouldn’t say that I’d been in the sun for only three seconds... you’d think I’d been in it for three years, because I look like a real negro... never mind, it’s a pretty portrait, and my wife will be well pleased!..

Irohakodomokurairiasobi

Irohakodomokurairiasobi

JOURNEY TO CHINA 17: THE PENAL CODE. The Chinese legislators have decreed that all the accused will answer a summons freely in front of their judges, and so they are brought before the examining magistrate between two policemen and bound with handcuffs, which in fact leaves them no more liberty than to sneeze. Moreover justice is delivered with such promptness in the Celestial Empire that it is very rare for he who has been cautioned to remain more than eight months before attending his trial, finally the solemn day arrives when he sees himself sentenced to a fortnight in prison, and the capped mandarin has the goodness to explain to him that this fortnight is not to be confused with the eight months he has already spent behind bolted doors