Fisherman with Live Octopus on Right Shoulder, a Wine Jug Dangling from His Right Hand

Fisherman carrying an octopus over his shoulder

Fisherman carrying a boy in a basket on his shoulder

[Russian soldier on horseback, carrying a sword in right hand, a spear in left hand, and a rifle mounted on his chest with a string extending from the trigger to his mouth]

[Russian soldier on horseback, carrying a sword in right hand, a spear in left hand, and a rifle mounted on his chest with a string extending from the trigger to his mouth]

A vendor with his wares on a tray on a pole over his shoulder talks to two women

Wood masseur operates on left shoulder with elbow. From Doctor Gunther's collection of Netsuke

[Chinese Emperor(?) and Empress(?) seated on raised platform with musicians seated in front of them; the Emperor appears to have lost his nose and part of his right shoulder, the Empress part of her scalp]

[A woman, possibly a courtesan, seated, facing right, with her head turned to look back over her right shoulder, wearing several hairpins]

[Rear view of a traveler or monk wearing cape and with large conical hat on his back, carrying a short staff in right hand]

[Hotei, the god of good fortune, one of the seven lucky gods, facing right, standing on a rolling barrel, holding a mallet in his right hand and carrying his large bottomless bag of goods]

A fireman holding a standard for district one over his shoulder, from the series Firemen's Standards of all ...

[A man walking to the left, wearing a large conical hat and a straw or feather garment, carrying a long handled tool over his right shoulder]

Americans Drawn from Life (An American with a Cigar, Accompanied by His Wife)

[A man and a woman, seen from behind, are looking to where the man is pointing with his left arm, he holds a closed parasol in his right hand; the woman has her hands on her face, it is unclear whether she is peering into the distance or crying]

[A person walking to the left, mostly obscured by an open parasol carried over the shoulder, wearing kimono and geta, and carrying a bag in right hand]

[Russian general, possibly meant to be A.N. Kuropatkin, holding sword in raised right hand while doctors and a nurse tend to wounds in his left arm]

[A man or monk seated, seen from behind, holding a short dagger(?) in right hand, while meditating or contemplating seppuku]

[Russian general, possibly meant to be A.N. Kuropatkin, holding sword in raised right hand while doctors and a nurse tend to wounds in his left arm]

Major Pollock with NZ Services [J-Force] votes from Japan, with one hand on a box in the boot of a motor veh...

LEFT: A Marine with a 70 mm. gun captured from the Japanese. RIGHT: Marines loading a huge bomb on to a trai...

[A man, wearing a large conical hat and a straw or feather garment, leaning on or rolling a large barrel-like object, possibly a mochi tub; he is carrying a long-handled tool, possibly a mallet, over his right shoulder]

The Actors Bando Mitsugoro I as Hata no Kawakatsu (right), and Otani Hiroemon III as the Manservant (Yakko) Gansuke (left), in the Play Miya-bashira Iwao no Butai (Shrine Pillars on a Stone Base), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month, 1773