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Shijo Shibai, Festival of Swimmers,
and a Kabuki performance.

Yoshida shrine in Kyoto's Sakyo-ku
district with its hexagonal structure.

This contribution was made possible
with material from Wolfgang and
Waltraud Klein-Langner, Würzburg
and Jürgen Scheffler, Lemgo. Photo-
graph unknown, possibly The British
Library, London.
Notes

1 For the first brief introduction to the
album, see Yu-Ying Brown: Japanese
Book Illustration. London 1988, p. 31-
3; and for the first public display of
some of the items, see British Library
exhibition leaflet, "Byways in Japa-
nese Illustration" (Sept. 1988).
2 Add. MS. 5252; bearing Sloane's old
classification 'Bibliothecae Sloanianae
Min. 47'
3 see City Museum Hexenbürgerhaus
Lemgo, http://www.hexenbuerger-
meisterhaus.de/engelbertkaempfer.
html?&L=4, from where a former ex-
hibition on Kaempfer travelled this
summer to Würzburg (Siebold-Mu-
seum). I am indepted to Wolfgang
Klein-Langner who was providing me
with excellent pictures from this al-
bum. Finally, we may invite you to a virtual visit of the musealized Dejima.
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