Japanese Perceptions of Life

Capturing a Sperm Whale, an 1835 painting by John William Hill. (© Yale University Art Gallery)

An 1854 daguerreotype of Ishizuka Kanzō and his attendants made by Eliphalet Brown, Jr. (Courtesy Hakodate City Central Library)

The five dogs commemorating the holding facility ordered by Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the Dog Shōgun, in front of the Nakano municipal office. (© PIXTA)