DESCRIPTION
This vintage illustration depicts the street scene outside an apothecary, or pharmacy, shop in 1870s Japan. Engraved by Charles Laplante (d. 1903) after a sketch by Aime Humbert (1818 - 1900), it was published in an 1874 memoir of Humbert's travels through Japan and is now in the public domain. Digital restoration by Steven Wynn Photography.