palanquin bearers

A palanquin bearer is smoking tobacco with a long pipe, apparently during a break. The straw curtain seems to be rolled up, suggesting that this palanquin was a shitekago used by the general public in the Edo Period.==Date:Middle Meiji (1883-1897), Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number64‐8‐0]

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