"Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction"

St. Vitus Cathedral, south side. View of the flying buttresses on the roof of the choir chapels

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Tokyo Museum Collection

NEWS: CHINA CIVILISING HERSELF. －Now then..., attention!... here's the European theory... the eyes looking fifteen paces into the distance and let the foot which is on the ground quickly go to rejoin that which is in the air..

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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

NEWS 27: －Yes, Mrs.Chaboulard, there're twenty four grocers who've joined together and taken the oath to murder president Dupin. －The horror of it!... but also why doesn't the government watch the grocers better... I said it a long time ago, all grocers are scoundrels!... and to prove it, yesterday mine sold me mustard for two sous and he only gave me six liards' worth... I'm going to denounce him, he'll be one of the twenty four!..

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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

Strangers in Paris 9: What are called the seductions of Paris: A stall, see master... this evening you’ll hear Madame Dorus-Grasse and Mr. Bariolhé sing... an excellent stall in the pit... twelve francs...cheaper that at the [ticket] desk!

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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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..

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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

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..

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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French Types 2: The tailor: He walks with an arched back, his shoulders like a coat-stand and his elbows turned outwards. His suits, cut in the latest fashion, often clash with his boots and hat, he nearly always has a very euphonical name such as Wahaterkermann or Pikprunmann

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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Blown by the heat of the roof, Grandfather's head already seemed pale like a skull. Well, I'm not sure...do you remember what he said, when the red-hot iron was about to be put into his eyes? *

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

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

Parisian Freebooters 6: The Umbrella-trick: The freebooter takes advantage of the storm [,] going about it in the manner you see [here]... he pushes his umbrella into the face of a passer-by and seizes his victim's Watch, Purse or Pocket-book

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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

Strangers in Paris 1: The arrival: What, no room!... －Not even for your hat-box... －What about in the sitting-room? －Twenty one Englishmen are in there... －In the attic?... －I've put eleven Savoyards in there... －In the celler?... －Fifteen Polish people have set up home... －Oh! hang it...oh! damnation... oh! Good God!...are we going to spend the night by the side of a milestone?... －That's what you'd better do, because then the night patrol will get you out of trouble quickly by taking you to sleep at the Prefecture of Police's office, Saint Martin cell!... specially reserved for the homeless and poodles without papers!..

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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

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!..

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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

Caricaturana 33: Robert-Macaire the Journalist: I'm bringing you an article about the new law. I've slated it in a joking way, you see! －What are you thinking of, Mister Macaire, we shouldn't be attacking that law, we should defend it. － Ah,indeed, indeed, I'll rework it and make a frothy article in favour of the aforesaid law

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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

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!

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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

MEMORIES OF THE PEACE CONGRESS [2]: SECOND MEETING: An American orator proves in an irrefutable manner that the only means of pacifying humankind is to force all men to wear, like him, a green hat, which they should never remove except in the evenings, when going to bed. No one even dared to contest this opinion

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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

Caricaturana 92: Sir, I despise the charlatanism of the poster, I despise the Puffs of the advertisement, I abhor everything which smells of the charalatan, the tumbler, the rope-dancer, and I limit myself to producing with all naivete and foolishness my merchandise. Read my catalogue! Scent of love, esteem and friendship, in phials from the Middle-Ages... Extract of the smile of infancy －Perfume of Adolphe's first steps－ Water of the peoples' alliance, for the handkerchief, with Beranger's song. Perfume of General Foy, a scent to strengthen the brain's fibre and to remind the French of their liberties and rights guaranteed by the constitutional charter. Surrounded by an oration given upon the tomb of the immortal deputy by one of his honourable colleagues. You see, it's impossible to be more simple

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

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 8: Dramatic farce. Steady on! －Steady on!... don't raise the curtain, I'm not performing... －(The director, hastening, frightened) You're joking, my dear Macaire, you're joking, aren't you? －Not at all, not at all... I won't act... －You won’t play a similar trick at the theatre, on the author, on your poor comrades... －Brrrrt! you don't keep to your engagements, [so] I break mine, give me the forfeit... －I don't keep to my engagements!! －No, you should pay me ready cash, and you owe me... －What ? －You owe me 75 centimes

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 8: Dramatic farce. Steady on! －Steady on!... don't raise the curtain, I'm not performing... －(The director, hastening, frightened) You're joking, my dear Macaire, you're joking, aren't you? －Not at all, not at all... I won't act... －You won’t play a similar trick at the theatre, on the author, on your poor comrades... －Brrrrt! you don't keep to your engagements, [so] I break mine, give me the forfeit... －I don't keep to my engagements!! －No, you should pay me ready cash, and you owe me... －What ? －You owe me 75 centimes

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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

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!

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 2: －Yes, Madam, I am completely devoted to our August Prince, and by means of a few miserable hundreds of thousands of francs will undertake to re-establish him on the throne. －What are your means? －My means! I am full of means! I have friends, newspapers, and if the entire Macaire family declares itself for him, never could a Prince raise a more innumerable army!..

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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

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!..

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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

Ancient History 13: The rape of Helen. Paris,whom by love was seized up to the teeth, / Was hardly fit to smoke a cigar. / Helen knew this, and without giving warning,/ Carried Paris away in her sturdy arms (Aeneid)

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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(Left) The little village on the far mountainside was already out of sight, and spring was coming around again. The grape trees were like large ailing snakes creeping under the coping stones of the wall. A brown light moved about in the tepid air. The void created by the selfsame every day is likely to chop down even the young trees that were left behind. In this everyday life, a thicket of trees protrudes like a boulder. (Right) The village I lived in has never been thought of as so small. The sun showed itself. The tall poplar forest looks like a beach being blown about by the wind. I grow dizzy just watching that seamless succession. If I can manage to get drunk on this succession of unchanging days, I can also grow to feel like I have taken down an elephant or snake. He differentiated things in this way, like a fluttering butterfly

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

JOURNEY TO CHINA 2: THE PASSPORT. The foreigner who visits China is submitted to an indispensable formality; he receives a slip of paper on which is written the age he wants to indicate, the profession he says he pursues and the place where it pleases him to appoint his birth; all that followed by a description of particulars which applies to everybody, after which, against a consideration of two francs, the Chinese government is deemed to lend him succour and assistance for one year

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Right there in the middle

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

"Robinson Crusoe"

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

"The Nightingale and the Rose"

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

That quail looks like me

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

"Solaris"

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

"The Crystal World"

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

"A Stranger in the Kingdom"

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

"Orphans of the Sky"

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

"Nine Stories" #2

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

"Sea-Wyf and Biscuit"

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

That's something I just can't understand

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

"Lord of the Flies"

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

"Two Years' Vacation"

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

"Lily of the Valley"

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

"The Long Afternoon of Earth"

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

Flat String

Tokyo National Museum

Integrated Collections Database of the National Museums, Japan

鹿の子織懐中煙草入れ

Maeda Tosanomori-ke Shiryokan Museum

KANAZAWA MUSEUM PLUS（Maeda Tosanokami-ke Shiryokan Museum）

Please reply soon in transparent onion ink or secret code

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

"Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea"

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

博多献上織(女帯)

Fukuoka City Museum

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一束一本

Fukuoka City Museum

Fukuoka City Museum Collection Database

赤地懐中煙草入れ

Maeda Tosanomori-ke Shiryokan Museum

KANAZAWA MUSEUM PLUS（Maeda Tosanokami-ke Shiryokan Museum）

"The Door into Summer" #2

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Tokyo Museum Collection

National Policy: Hot-water Bottle

Edo-Tokyo Museum

Tokyo Museum Collection