A Woman Who Seems to Be Floating, ​Shinmachi, Maehara, Ginowan City

Woman in Maehara

Woman with Her Fingertips Together, Ginowan

JOURNEY TO CHINA 8: WOULD YOU MARRY... IN CHINA. A Chinese woman who brings nothing to her husband places the household in difficulties because her clothes are very costly. / A Chinese woman who brings something, places the household in embarrassing circumstances because her clothes cost more. / A Chinese woman who brings many things places the household in misery: her whims devour everything!

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

Affectation 8: (He reads a letter) A meeting, it could be from that little Mrs. Giraud!... yes... but perhaps it's from her husband who wants to nab me and give me a thrashing

SKETCHES OF THE THEATRE (7): The singer's mother. = And to think that that miserable old skinflint of a director sulks about giving sixty thousand francs a year to an angel who sings like That!

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!

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!!!..

JOURNEY TO CHINA 6: CHINESE PROPRIETY. In this country they have a singular idea of propriety!... the most chaste young girl, the most upstanding woman do not blush, by a prodigious exaggeration of forms, to call attention to a certain quarter to which they give the appearance of a veritable air-balloon... they call that a bustle..

PARISIAN SKETCHES 3: － Yes, my dear mister Coffignon, it would be difficult for me to count up the number of my conquests I've always had and today still have great success with women! － To be sure [,] as for me [,] I've only ever had mine [my woman] and I still find that it's too much!

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 13: －Hey there!... sailors... hey there!... land without fear on our island... the men aren't cannibals and you won't even find a savage woman here..

MONOMANIACS 2: THE EMBROIDERER: An example of the error that nature sometimes commits in labelling the sexes. Thus, in the same way that you see so-called women who sport trousers, a kind of moustache, play the cornet, the double-bass, or who compose humanitarian novels; so you see so-called men who pluck the harp, hem ties, embroider at the frame with their men's hands, and if need be, do a little cooking

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 42: －I say, our mayor... communists what's that?... －Pierre, they're people who want money to be common, work common, land common among all French people... －Oh! well I think for a start they've got not common sense!..

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 19: THE CLAQUER: By Jingo; we're going to need to liven it up this evening, a new play in three acts; the comic wants me to burst out laughing, the heroine wants me to cry, the author wants me to stamp up to the old heavy mother, who wants me to applaud her... there's ... work for you

MONOMANIACS 8: THE COFFEE-LOVER: The half-cup easily becomes second nature; one finds a number of people who, like the lover above, have made themselves an immutable law to take their coffee, in order to facilitate digestion, even though their means do not allow them to dine. It is agreed that existence would be too bitter without chicory

MONOMANIACS 8: THE COFFEE-LOVER: The half-cup easily becomes second nature; one finds a number of people who, like the lover above, have made themselves an immutable law to take their coffee, in order to facilitate digestion, even though their means do not allow them to dine. It is agreed that existence would be too bitter without chicory

The Blue-stockings 18: Oh my idolised Victor... a poetic idea has come to me!..

MEMORIES OF THE PEACE CONGRESS 1: Victor Hugo, in a lecture of three points, demonstrates the futility of military glory, and proves by example that the crown of laurels could be replaced to advantage by a crown of roses! this gives him the advantage of making a novel effect of his forehead

NEWS 37: A STUBBORN OLD MAN. －Clerk of the court, would you be kind enough to tell me when they'll punish the individual who, at the place du Havre, put my eye in the condition in which you see it. －But sir, it's unthinkable that you should continue to wear such an eye-patch when we've proven to you that no one was punched in the place du Havre... do you know that the ex-members of the Society of the Tenth of December would have the right to demand compensation for the harm that you're doing to their reputation!

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

NAUTICAL IMPRESSIONS. NAUTICAL THRILLS: Mr. PRUDHOMME. －What..., impudent waves!... do you indeed not know whom you are carrying at this moment, since you are so bold towards me?... understand that, like Xerxes, I am able to have you lashed!... Mrs. PRUDHOMME (Trembling all over) －Oh!... my dear... I beg you!... don't be impertinent to it, you'll put it in a rage and it's capable of swallowing us up!..

JOURNEY TO CHINA 5: CHINESE LAW. Chinese barristers strive so hard, striking so many oratorical poses that the magistrates, in order not to be distracted by the gestures of the defence and to lose nothing of his arguments, generally devote themselves to some manual work, one slices his desk with penknife cuts; the other draws crude little figures on stamped paper or fashions folded paper hens; others have recourse to a more efficient method, they close their eyes and fall into deep meditation from which the usher who shouts silence! with all his might is at great pains to extract them... it is for this reason that Chinese justice is represented with a bandage over its eyes

JOURNEY TO CHINA 17: THE PENAL CODE. The Chinese legislators have decreed that all the accused will answer a summons freely in front of their judges, and so they are brought before the examining magistrate between two policemen and bound with handcuffs, which in fact leaves them no more liberty than to sneeze. Moreover justice is delivered with such promptness in the Celestial Empire that it is very rare for he who has been cautioned to remain more than eight months before attending his trial, finally the solemn day arrives when he sees himself sentenced to a fortnight in prison, and the capped mandarin has the goodness to explain to him that this fortnight is not to be confused with the eight months he has already spent behind bolted doors

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 24: THE KNIGHT OF THE GOLDEN SPUR: This so-called former Colonel of the Papal Guard, later aide-de-camp to the Prince of Monaco, awaiting as a prize for his services a distinguished post in the Government!... he would, however, willingly accept a tabacconist's shop or a position as an inspector of [street] sweeping; besides [this] he is a gallant man like all knights of his order, for a trifle demanding satisfaction from five-year-old children, perfectly making excuses from the moment you look at him in the face