All are happy at the big party. Never before had eunuchs seen so big a party as the one for Ayesha

My first happiness year in my life was with Ayesha, Never before had I been so happy

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We have the same gestures, even though Ayesha was not born from my stomach

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Album des Charges du Jour: EUNUCHS DISCHARGED BY THE BEY TUNIS.[sic] －What's going to become of us?... here we are[,] dismissed!... －There's nothing for it but to become coachmen in Constantinople!..

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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 71: A STEEPLE-CHASE WINNER: －So you confirm that I came in first... －My dear chap you were magnificent... everybody envies your lot!..

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THE FREQUENTERS OF CAFÉS 1: Personally, I'm in the habit of never giving anything to the waiter, it encourages celibacy

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The Good Bourgeois 20: －It appears they have just seen the sea serpent again in the Indian Ocean! －Is that possible, for goodness sake! －Certainly it's possible, for goodness sake, because I told you that it says so in le Constitutionnel! so!..

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PARISIAN SKETCHES 33: － How late you are arriving at the Stock-Exchange... I'll warrant you've had a windfall?... scoundrel!... － What do you expect!... I'll settle down..., when I get old!..

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Childish Acts 1: I don't want to get into so much water... there'll be a lot of big fish in there

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NEWS 28: － I told you just now that I wouldn't be annoyed if the Oriental affair put itself to rights. － Yes, and so? － Well, it's funny, but since I've drunk that Mars beer, I'd like it if we had a war

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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 12: A day of the 1st performance

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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 62: THE DAQY WHEN YOU HAVE TO DISPLAY GALLANTRY: －How much is that big bouquet?... －Ten francs －Good God!... and this little here? －Fifteen francs －Damnation!..

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Where are we going, where are we going?...We are walking on a volcano, the gulf of revolutions is open beneath our footsteps...the carriage of state has been halted by the flood of all these bad passions

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PARISIAN SKETCHES 7: In contemplation before the opera's ship, － at least it is not before that of the porte St. Martin, － nor indeed that of the ambigu [sic], － anyway, what is certain is that they are gazing upon a vessel

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IN CHINA 18: －They're going to be truly caught, those Europeans!... they've got cannons which are terrible, because they're grooved, [but] I, I've had the excellent idea of making all my soldiers striped!..

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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 61: A MISTRESS AT THE OPERA: －You see that little brunette dancer who's [skirt is] ballooning now... well, dear chap! I've had her for a week... she's mad about me!..

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Conjugal Manners 4: This morning, before dawn..

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NEWS 233: All the same we never doubted that one day we'd sail in that ship

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The Blue-stockings 5: I say, Bichette... What are you thinking of..

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News 122: The last day for the submission of pictures: －Heavens above! －we're already here and my picture isn’t finished... I’m annoyed at having hired my porter for the whole day, I would sooner have had him carry it by the hour!..

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Some Villagers Commenting on How Pretty the Old Woman’s Legs Are, Kamiunten, Nakijin

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TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 12: －So then, my friend, at the age of twenty two you had already killed three men... what a powerful nature, and how guilty society is for not having better guided it!... －Oh! yeah sir!... in my view the police have been very wrong... without them I wouldn't be here!..

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BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 27: COUNTRY ACTORS: －Yes,my dear fellow,yes the barbarians hissed at me in Cinna;and what's more you've seen me in Cinna! －Yes, I flatter myself that I've seen you, but don't you see that the provincials are hard up; open at the Français, go and find Mr.J.J.,get yourself looked after, ask for one hundred thousand francs per year and they'll applaud you...but you want success with 1500F[rancs] salaries and at Beauvais...greenhorn!

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The Blue-stockings 12: To think that Arsinoé was not happy to be the sitter for her portrait..

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THE ALARMISTS AND ALARMED. 6: －Sir, it's a three sou letter... －Is it the done thing to knock on the door for a three sou letter...I had a fright!... I thought they'd come to ask me for my weapons..

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I had little gajras (flower bracelets) of jasmine made to welcome each guest

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Eunuch guest

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On his arrival each eunuch was greeted by me with a garland of jasmine flowers. Ayesha's first birthday

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My first happiness year in my life was with Ayesha, Never before had I been so happy

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Tokyo Museum Collection

Shalu dances on Ayesha's second birthday

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岩室甚句

NHK Archives

Michi-shiru: Japan Seasonal Journey

When I went to give blessings, I loved to talk to the women and to hear their joys and their sorrows

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Demobilized soldiers (Shinagawa Station)

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To my left is my guru Chaman, and to my right is my guru's eunuch brother Dugi

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First compulsory execution started

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Bath in the mountain

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Induction Test, Kojimachi, Chiyoda Ward

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Eunuch guests from Bangalore, Madras, Bangladesh, and Bombay

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Orphans begging rotating a rim (Ueno Station)

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Kōtojiboārudaininotoshibukea。kokoha、abijantoburukina fasowomusubutetsudounochuukeitenda。

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Onlookers at a visit to Dalat by Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State

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Nakijin Castle

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Hatarakuhitotachiga、koufukudenainohayokunaikotoda。

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Movie Premiere, Hollywood

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「写真集　西陣　美を織る暮らし」掲載 00021-02929-0008

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We have the same gestures, even though Ayesha was not born from my stomach

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Chaman invited us to Faridabad, to impress Dayanita with his new house

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Onlookers gather for a view of French President Charles de Gaulle on a visit to Tahiti

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上野天神祭で法螺貝を吹く子どもたち

Mie Prefectural Museum

Mie Prefectural Museum Collections (Photography & Video)