Illustrations from Paradise (excerpt): The Proud Heike, Itsukushima Shrine

Illustrations from Paradise

The Grand Torii Gateway at Itsukushima Shrine

Drawings of Mountings of Sutra Scrolls Donated by the Heike Clan to Itsukushima Shrine

Sumo tournament come from Tokyo. The islanders look forward to it. Shinmachi Grand Shrine

The Seven Gods of Fortune (Ebisu, Daikokuten, Bishamonten, Benzaiten, Hotei, Fukurokuju, and Jurojin) in Polychrome Overglaze Enamels (Eiraku Zengoro Ceramic Ware from the Konoike Family)

NEWS 145: The Emperor Soulouque, having learned that a European journalist permitted himself to criticise some of the acts of his administration, arrived to sieze the guilty man and plunged him into a cooking pot full of boiling tar －All with the hope that this would serve as a lesson to this hack and that he would not write a second article against his majesty. (Official prefect of Haiti.) (Note from le Charivari) －This ingenious method to curb the deviations of the Press is recommended for the meditation of the Burgraves