LSE4326213: The hara kiri: condemnation of a noble to ritual suicide; condemns him, a knee on the white mat will use the knife to open his belly, then the samurai stands behind him, decapitates him with a sword. Engraving to illustrate the voyage to Japan, in 1863-1864, by Aime Humbert, minister of the Swiss Confederation, in “” Le tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages”” published under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1867, Paris. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4602857: Maximilian Christopher Miller, the German Giant, 8 feet tall, exhibited at London fairs. He wears a Hungarian jacket, fancy cap with plume of feathers and carries a gilt sceptre and falchion sword. Copperplate engraving by R. Grave from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819. / Bridgeman Images