Even though there's no sign of any customers... near Ikebukuro, Hikarimachi Ohashi

Saturday night, even after the disco has closed･･･ Ikebukuro, Romance Street

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 2: THE GLEANER: What, not a needle,... not a handkerchief!... there's no longer any means of doing your job... it's the banker's wives, they don't leave anything lying around!..

NEWS 332: THE NEW CHALETS No more quaterly rent to pay you, Mr.Vautour... we're not even frightened of the porter any more... in our chalets we're all Swiss!..

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 16: Below the upper vignette: Bineau the Savage making his entry as minister; Below the lower vignette: －Well, so it's no cleverer than that to talk from the tribune? －Yes, but you, Pierre, you're listening to me too politely, you should say something stupid from time to time, [because] without that there's no longer any illusion, we're not in a meeting any more!

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 16: Below the upper vignette: Bineau the Savage making his entry as minister; Below the lower vignette: －Well, so it's no cleverer than that to talk from the tribune? －Yes, but you, Pierre, you're listening to me too politely, you should say something stupid from time to time, [because] without that there's no longer any illusion, we're not in a meeting any more!

Akasaka: Yajirō Gives Kitahachi a Beating on the Nawate Road, Mistaking Him for (the Spirit of) a Fox, no. 40 from the series Collection of Illustrations of Famous Places near the Fifty-Three Stations [Along the Tōkaidō]

MONOMANIACS 8: THE COFFEE-LOVER: The half-cup easily becomes second nature; one finds a number of people who, like the lover above, have made themselves an immutable law to take their coffee, in order to facilitate digestion, even though their means do not allow them to dine. It is agreed that existence would be too bitter without chicory

MONOMANIACS 8: THE COFFEE-LOVER: The half-cup easily becomes second nature; one finds a number of people who, like the lover above, have made themselves an immutable law to take their coffee, in order to facilitate digestion, even though their means do not allow them to dine. It is agreed that existence would be too bitter without chicory

The Hanging-cloud Bridge at Mount Gyōdō near Ashikaga (Ashikaga Gyōdōzan kumo no kakehashi), from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces (Shokoku meikyō kiran)

The Hanging-cloud Bridge at Mount Gyōdō near Ashikaga (Ashikaga Gyōdōzan kumo no kakehashi), from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces (Shokoku meikyō kiran)

Recollections of Artists 311: － There's one for you, he might well be as miserable as sin, what I wouldn't give him for a sou's worth of work

PARISIAN SKETCHES 21: SCENE OF HORSEFLESH-EATING. － True indeed... there's Sir eating his old horse... I only hope that one day he doesn't get the idea of sitting down to eat his old maid!..

PASTORALS 34: -－Will you shut up with your Cock-a doodle-doos...there's no point in coming to the country to sleep peacefully, －I'm woken everyday at three o'clock in the morning... I slept better in Paris, even when my wife was alive!..

Ketakachouhougi.kouchigawanotekkyounosuguchikakumadesakyuuganobiteiru

General Schlagmann, imagining that the uniform gives courages, and wanting at any price also to secure zouaves, determines to dress up some of his Croats as Turks!..

池袋演劇祭20周年・あうるすぽっと開館1周年記念公演『池袋 わが町』出演者募集開始 ～あなたもジェームス三木の舞台で池袋を感じてみませんか？～

IN CHINA 19: －Tchinn-Tchinn..., you bring me good news!... I accord you the highest honour of kissing the august dust of my august shoes!..

THRILLS OF THE HUNT 13: －It's no use their having told me their guns are charged only with small shot, it's no less deeply upsetting to have my head aimed at like this for the next three hours!... I tremble in case they dream they meet a rabbit!..

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 4: THE GATHERER OF CIGAR BUTTS: They're not going to stop, those chaps there! they're bailiffs' clerks, they'll smoke them to ashes, and no means of getting plugs of tabacco from them

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 22: THE CLOTHES SELLER: “Closes to sell!... any hats, shoes, old clothes to sell!” This trade fourishes at carnival time in the vicinity of the schools of law and medicine: the student willingly sells his wardrobe to get himself a stevedore's costume, a wife, a small thimble-full of champagne and limitless tittle-tattle!

池袋大橋壁面に立教大生がアート 「空」と「海」をテーマに、落書きをなくして街に明るい風景を

Suddenly I felt better. Maybe it was the magic of the old woman, or the gods had pity on me

踊って、踊って、街を元気にしよう!「にゅ～盆踊り」大会、今年も開催! NHKてっぱんダンスでお馴染み 近藤良平・コンドルズ池袋大作戦!

Ancient History 47: Pygmalion. Oh triumph of arts! what was your surprise, / Great scupltor, when you saw your marble come alive, / And with a chaste and gentle manner lean forward / To ask for a pinch [of snuff]. (Count Siméon)