EditorialKalmyk man and Japanese sumo wrestler with chonmage (topknot) and beard. Swarthy Kalmucks, Eleuth and Japanese prizefighter. Mongoles. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his Natural History of th...
EditorialKalmyk man and Japanese sumo wrestler with chonmage (topknot) and beard. Swarthy Kalmucks, Eleuth and Japanese prizefighter. Mongoles. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his Natural History of th...
EditorialJapanese Shinto fortune teller preaching to a crowd of men with tonsured hair (chonmage). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples (Il Costume Antico e Moderno di Tutti i P...
EditorialBusts of Japanese men with chonmage topknot hairstyle, and Chinese men with beards, one with pigtail. Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals, 1836.
EditorialFacsimile of a Japanese fashion plate showing hairstyles of men (chonmage) and women, Edo period. From the Hair-Dressers' Journal, Nagasaki. Chromolithograph by Jules Cheret from Eugene Rimmel's Le Livre des Parfums, Paris, 1870.
EditorialJapanese nobleman in chonmage, wearing kamishimo, kimono, hakama and gloves, with two swords on his belt. Valet with straw hat. Handcoloured woodcut by Mercier and Pannemaker after an illustration by H. Hendrickx from Auguste Wahlen's "Moeurs, Usages e...
EditorialCostumes of Japan circa 1800, including a priest, women in geta (wooden sandals), a man in formal robes with cane, a beggar monk, two Japanese men with chonmage hairstyles, kataginu and hakama, carrying swords, and a soldier. Handcoloured lithograph fr...