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Summary

Description

Archer japonais (troupes du Siogoun), Aimé Humbert, Le Japon illustré, volume I (Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, 1870), printed page 226. This is the same printed composition as HPB-SB-4-166, image item 5: kneeling archer in armour, wrapped headcloth, quiver, bow and arrow, swords, stonework, mountains and the individual hatching patterns. The printed signatures THEROND and GAUCHARD and the French caption are retained. The photograph/engraving comparison already present in Sources remains a separate witness.

This is a matching historical printed witness, not proof of the exact publication or physical copy from which the album clipping was taken. This 1870 caption does not name the photographer. The album's existing image, note and attribution remain unchanged.

Source

Le Japon illustre 1 (Kyushu University Library Collections), catalogue ID 410687. The primary record identifies Aimé Humbert, volume 1, French, Paris, Libr. de L. Hachette, 1870.

• Stable catalogue record and digitized volume.
• Library IIIF manifest, canvas 239, printed page 226; native image 286423.
• Complete original colour JPEG, 2567 × 3613 pixels, 1,534,599 bytes; SHA-256 a02393cfbfeab73e326847d290afbd07c088e0f943669b426849619e049f565f.

Cropped from Le Japon illustre 1 (held by Kyushu University Library Collections). The unchanged full original is retained and linked above. This crop was prepared for inclusion here; it is not presented as a modified image produced or endorsed by the library. Thank you to Kyushu University Library for preserving, digitizing and freely providing this volume.

Rights

The exact catalogue record marks this digitized volume Public Domain. The library's reuse policy (updated 3 April 2026, checked 5 November 2026) expressly permits free reuse of images so marked, including modification and commercial use, without advance application. It requires source credit and disclosure of modifications; both are supplied here and below the included image. This is the library's Public Domain designation and reuse policy, not an invented CC0 or Creative Commons licence. No application, account, payment or additional agreement was required or submitted.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 1340 × 2010 pixels. Native-pixel crop (680,730)–(2020,2740), right and bottom exclusive, from the 2567 × 3613 original JPEG. All visible illustration detail, the small original mark above the bow, both signatures and the complete printed caption are retained. The caption and printed hatching are already level; no rotation or resampling was needed. No enlargement, sharpening, contrast or colour adjustment, retouching, colourization or reconstruction. Natural paper, physical marks and minor scan colour speckling retained. The original JPEG has no ICC profile; none was invented. Source/crop/album personally compared 5 November 2026; independent native crop replay passed.