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CHINA-HUNAN-PINGJIANG COUNTY-FLOOD-RESCUE & RELIEF (CN)

(240702) -- CHANGSHA, July 2, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- An aerial drone photo shows an excavator working to restore a blocked road in Sanshi Town of Pingjiang county, central China's Hunan Province, July 2, 2024. The flooding water in Pingjiang county is gradually declining. As of 6 p.m. on July 2, the water level of Pingjiang watch station of the Miluo River was 76.18 meters, still 5.68 meters above the warning mark, but 1.49 meters lower than the peak level. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Chen Sihan)

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Rakugo artist Katsura Bunshi

TOKYO, Japan - Rakugo artist Katsura Bunshi holds a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2012. The 69-year-old artist, formerly known as Katsura Sanshi, will give performances of comic storytelling in Paris on Dec. 7 and 8 as part of ongoing shows marking his succession to the name of his late master.

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Rakugo artist Katsura Bunshi

TOKYO, Japan - Rakugo artist Katsura Bunshi is pictured at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2012. The 69-year-old artist, formerly known as Katsura Sanshi, will give performances of comic storytelling in Paris on Dec. 7 and 8 as part of ongoing shows marking his succession to the name of his late master.

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Rakugo artist Sanshi succeeds late master's name

OSAKA, Japan - The sixth Katsura Bunshi gives a "Rakugo" comic storytelling performance at an Osaka theater on July 16, 2012. Formerly known as Katsura Sanshi, he succeeded the same day his late master's name to become the sixth-generation holder of the name Katsura Bunshi.

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Some 1,800 people attend autumn imperial garden party

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) talks with comic storyteller Sanshi Katsura (2nd from R) during an annual autumn garden party at Akasaka Imperial Garden in Tokyo on Oct. 25. Some 1,800 guests were invited to the party.

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Permanent 'rakugo' theater opens in Osaka, 1st since WWII

OSAKA, Japan - Rakugo performer Katsura Sanshi, head of the Kamigata Rakugo Kyokai, pulls a rickshaw carrying Katsura Harudanji III during a ceremony held to mark the opening of the Temma Tenjin Hanjo Tei, a theater dedicated to ''rakugo'' comic storytelling, in Osaka's Kita Ward on Sept. 15. It is the first permanent rakugo theater to open in Osaka since World War II.

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Expo celebrates couples on 30th wedding anniversary

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Twenty-six couples, including those from China, South Korea, Brazil and the Netherlands, are congratulated on their 30th wedding anniversary at an event at the World Exposition in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on June 11, with comic storyteller Katsura Sanshi (2nd from L) as host.

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Permanent 'rakugo' theater opens in Osaka, 1st since WWII

OSAKA, Japan - Rakugo performer Katsura Sanshi, head of the Kamigata Rakugo Kyokai, pulls a rickshaw carrying Katsura Harudanji III during a ceremony held to mark the opening of the Temma Tenjin Hanjo Tei, a theater dedicated to ''rakugo'' comic storytelling, in Osaka's Kita Ward on Sept. 15. It is the first permanent rakugo theater to open in Osaka since World War II. (Kyodo)

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Expo celebrates couples on 30th wedding anniversary

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Twenty-six couples, including those from China, South Korea, Brazil and the Netherlands, are congratulated on their 30th wedding anniversary at an event at the World Exposition in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on June 11, with comic storyteller Katsura Sanshi (2nd from L) as host. (Kyodo)

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Some 1,800 people attend autumn imperial garden party

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) talks with comic storyteller Sanshi Katsura (2nd from R) during an annual autumn garden party at Akasaka Imperial Garden in Tokyo on Oct. 25. Some 1,800 guests were invited to the party. (Kyodo)

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Pier at The Russian Settlement at Inasa

Shiga was the village headman of Fuchi in Urakami Village, and the area leading onto present-day Asahi-Ohashi Bridge in Asahi-machi was called ‘Shiga-no-hato.’ The building on the tip of the land on the left is Restaurant Volga run by Morooka Matsu. The two-storied building in front of it is the villa of the Fukudas and housed the Russian officers’ club where Michinaga Ei, known as Inasa Oei, would work later. The building with the big roof in the foreground belonged to Fukuda, the sanshi (assistant officer). The house on the right belonged to Shiga.==Date:about 1874, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma?, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)