A Waitress in a Cafe on Break (Alcohol-Tears or Sighs?)
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Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Tokyo Museum Collection

Thirty-Two Daily Scenes: 'Looks Interested in Buying', Mannerisms of a Housewife from the Kaei Period
Edo-Tokyo Museum
Tokyo Museum Collection
A top actress in Asakusa,Michiko Oh-e was so beautiful and yet of great dignity
Photo Archive Japan
Photo Archive Japan Database

Strangers in Paris 12: A fixed-price dinner: There’s a restaurateur who does things on a large scale... for our thirty two sous he’s given us a stomachache worth twenty francs per head!..
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

A peaceful scenery of a water mill in front of the entrance of a Bishamon (temple) in Hirashimizu, Kanazawa Village
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Tokyo Museum Collection

The Railways 12: -Guard!... Guard!... stop in the name of heaven!... I've got stomack-ache!... -Impossible.. the management forbids it!... but in two and a quarter hours we’ll be in Orleans!..
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan
![NEWS 144: If a meter could be adapted to cannons as on cabs, perhaps the total would reflect the [army's] estimates [or,budgets]](https://search.artmuseums.go.jp/jpeg/small/nmwa/0040380001.jpg)
NEWS 144: If a meter could be adapted to cannons as on cabs, perhaps the total would reflect the [army's] estimates [or,budgets]
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

Thirty-Two Daily Scenes: 'Looks Coy' Mannerisms of a Girl in the Meiji Period
Edo-Tokyo Museum
Tokyo Museum Collection

TRIVIAL THINGS 7: -Come to dinner, my wife dines in town: we will be fellows together. -Ah,deuce,I have a migraine! (aside) and his wife who is waiting for me at home!
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

PARISIAN IN 1848. 3: -Yes, citizen, I demand the most complete abolition of factions!..
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

PARISIAN IN 1848. 1: -Well... I didn't recognise you... what moustaches!... -It's necessary... I've been made a corporal..
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

Strangers in Paris 3: What is called dining in a restaurant: -Waiter!...I've been in your establishment for an hour and a quarter without having a chair...and you've still only given the tooth-picks to my wife who's dying of hunger... you'll make me lose my normal posture, and I'll end up with my feet in the dish... do you understand, waiter! -There now, Sir... there there now, there there!!!
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 11: SEVEN O'CLOCK: Mr. Coquelet goes home... my word! dear chap, with honourable intentions. a neighbour 45 years old; a very pleasant little widow; but the heart has no part in it:..
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

Pro-divorce Women 5: A toast to the emancipation of women, by women already emancipated with a vengeance
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

PRACTICES OF THE MERCHANTS OF PARIS 6: She does make a fuss, that stuck up woman from the fifth floor, Wearing a hat! and two cups of milk for a sou! Damnation! Ma Capitaine, it's because we've got visitors this morning
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 15: THE OLD ROUÉE: So I'm going to be a door-keeper in the rue du Mont-Blanc in a large house where my husband says they'll call us porters. So I'm going to leave this ramshackle place where there're only four tenants who give me five sous apiece for a New Year's present... Scum!!!..
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

Tassha Bay spreads before a fixed-route bus running near the Nurebotoke (Buddhist statue) in Kamiogawa, Aikawa Town
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Tokyo Museum Collection

Ancient History 34: Vulcan's threads. This nasty metal-worker, knowing that his wife / Talked a little too closely with Mars, / Forged pitiless snares / Gripping both of them as they chatted on the lawn (A bachelor D. M. F. P.)
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

NEWS 3: A DECEMBRUISED: -Well!... it seems that the neighbour will also have found himself somewhere along the President of the Republic's passage!
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

NEWS 3: A DECEMBRUISED: -Well!... it seems that the neighbour will also have found himself somewhere along the President of the Republic's passage!
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

Ancient History 28: Hannibal's passage. In these frowning mountains whose snowy crest / Is like a giant's hoary brow, / Triumphant Hannibal, in order to make himself a path / Puts the Alps in vinaigrette (The Occidentals of Mr. Quinet)
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

JOURNEY TO CHINA 9: A CHINESE DANCE.One is greatly mistaken if one believes the Chinese people to be giddy, joyful and the friend of pleasure: they are on the contrary serious and morose, since their greatest amusement consists in a type of lugubrious walking in which the men and women walk one in front of the other, or one beside the other, and seem to be saying among themselves: brother we should die! In order also to point to the philosophical intention behind this ceremony, the opposite of dancing, they call it: Counter-dancing
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

Affectation 1: There Sir!... and then after this, you're going to run off to see the others!..
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

PASTORALS 34: --Will you shut up with your Cock-a doodle-doos...there's no point in coming to the country to sleep peacefully, -I'm woken everyday at three o'clock in the morning... I slept better in Paris, even when my wife was alive!..
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan
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