Costumes & customs in Japan by Kazuma Ogawa. Tokyo 1892
“No. I, Iidamachi, Shichome, Kojimachiku, Tokyo, Japan.”
Kazuma Ogawa. Costumes & customs in Japan.
Category: Asia
Costume and fashion history of Asia. Manners and Customs. Collected from rare sources.
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The Armenian bishop of Djulfa, Azerbaidjan. c. 1886
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