A male Green-backed Heron displayed his yellow throat and performed a short dance

A male baikal teal displaying head-pumping in front of a female

Osaka Museum of Natural History

Movie Archives of Animal Behavior

Resting his feet on a parking meter, a drunk sleeps it off on the hood of a car

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Tokyo Museum Collection

Onidaiko (demon drum dance) is a traditional arts that signifies Sado. Dance with valiant music

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Tokyo Museum Collection

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 5: 11 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING: Mr. Coquelet wishing to offer a bouquet of violets to Miss Palissandre, reproaches himself for his prodigality; and washing his handkerchief with his own hands, clears his conscience by means of this economy

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

Ancient History 15: Aeneas and Dido: A protective fog obscured the heavens; / And as they found themselves without an umbrella, / Leading his friend into a dark cave, / Aeneas on that beautiful day saw his ardours consummated (Aeneid. corrected by Mr. Villemain)

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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I look like a sad Muslim woman after fighting with my Guru Chaman. We went on a vist to the graveyard to show Ayesha the ducks

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Tokyo Museum Collection

THE FEASTERS 5: Rifolard opened the ball and performed [the step of] a single cavalier advancing which received general approbation

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

THE FEASTERS 5: Rifolard opened the ball and performed [the step of] a single cavalier advancing which received general approbation

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 68: A FASHIONABLE SUIT: －Sir, I swear that this suit is very becoming!... －Yes it's becoming and economical... with a similar [short] jacket you can perfectly well open the door when [the bell], is rung, and pass yourself off as your own man-servant!..

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NEWS 158: A stampede of Lilliputians who had tried to garrote Universal Suffrage during his sleep

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Parisian Freebooters 12: The Crocodile: This has to do with a variety of species of Crocodile, which was known to the ancients under the name of Tantalus and which a Gymnasium naturalist of our time has called the Gastronome without money. This voracious whale-like creature is most commonly found in the localities of Merchants of Eatables. His teeth are pointed and very long from lack of exercise, since he uses only his eyes to devour. When he has had the perseverance to remain for a whole day static in front of his prey he sometimes ends up by having the luck to catch... a crick in the neck. He feeds himself only on desires and vain hopes, he is also remarkably thin. Very different from other fish of his species that swim in open water, this type of Crocodile is always in the dry

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MONOMANIACS 4: THE AMATEUR GUITARIST: Defying the immense yawn / Wich he elicits by singing his verses / He will sing a ballad / About the remnants of the universe..

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PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 12: Cupid, a shrewd god, but full of vanity, / Bounds upon the table at the risk of a sprain, / In order to prove that his figure is wholly beautiful, / Between the two candlesticks he shows them his torso!

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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The Representatives Represented 25: Ferdinand Flocon; At first sight, you perhaps took this person for a Russian prince, slightly Cossack, which cannot have failed to afflict profoundly his quality as a watchful Republican. Ferdinand Flocon was for some weeks Minister of Agriculture, and one of his first acts was to shave his chin, formerly embellished with a full beard. He had even more excellent intentions, but lacked the time to carry them out

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

The Representatives Represented 25: Ferdinand Flocon; At first sight, you perhaps took this person for a Russian prince, slightly Cossack, which cannot have failed to afflict profoundly his quality as a watchful Republican. Ferdinand Flocon was for some weeks Minister of Agriculture, and one of his first acts was to shave his chin, formerly embellished with a full beard. He had even more excellent intentions, but lacked the time to carry them out

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

The Representatives Represented 25: Ferdinand Flocon; At first sight, you perhaps took this person for a Russian prince, slightly Cossack, which cannot have failed to afflict profoundly his quality as a watchful Republican. Ferdinand Flocon was for some weeks Minister of Agriculture, and one of his first acts was to shave his chin, formerly embellished with a full beard. He had even more excellent intentions, but lacked the time to carry them out

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

NEWS 154: Savage Bineau having at last found a use for his club on the boulevards[,] and making Parisians acquainted with all the charms of American roads

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 7: Below the upper vignette: Pierre Leroux daring to address the demi-god Barrot; Below the lower vignette: Pierre Leroux, having set forth to the tribune his social doctriness, [that are] no less tangled than his hair, receives a hand-shakes from his friends, who, in a fashion, appear to have understood them

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Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

NEWS 47: －Reverend, before proclaiming Papal infallibility, take a pass-ticket for me for what's being performed in there

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Bake bread in the shape of a clay figurine and Dokkie cookies that look like potshards! – Inocchi’s adventure (decoration of Inocchi the Wild Boar using Dogu Pan (bread in the shape of a clay figurine)

JOMON ARCHIVES; Digital Archives of the Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan

JOMON ARCHIVES; Digital Archives of the Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan

The Salon of 1842: Charmed to see himself exhibited, the original seen here takes his wife to the Salon, and places her in front of his own image, in order to rejoice in the crowd's judgment. －Look, say some, it's Chinese Commissioner Lin! －No, says others, don't you see that it's a bit of natural history! － It is, joins in a gentleman with a catalogue, it is the portrait of Mr. D..., insurance broker. －Well, with a bonce like that he needn't insure it, because no one would steal it. (His lady wife leaves, extremely flattered.)

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The Salon of 1842: Charmed to see himself exhibited, the original seen here takes his wife to the Salon, and places her in front of his own image, in order to rejoice in the crowd's judgment. －Look, say some, it's Chinese Commissioner Lin! －No, says others, don't you see that it's a bit of natural history! － It is, joins in a gentleman with a catalogue, it is the portrait of Mr. D..., insurance broker. －Well, with a bonce like that he needn't insure it, because no one would steal it. (His lady wife leaves, extremely flattered.)

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

THRILLS OF THE HUNT 1: －I think I've got a hare in its form... what luck!... －Wait[,]... we're going to see if you've got a hunting permit..., my good fellow!..

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

Parisian Boating Men 14: A man in to the sea: －Harpoon him more vigorously... we won’t get him without! －And you, hold his legs in the air, that’s the important thing!... nothing gives you a cold more than getting the soles of your feet wet!..

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan