Banquet (1890s)
A group of young men having a good time. A woman, or a man dressed up as a woman, is singing and using a broom as a musical instrument.Original text: "Workmen's Holiday. A party of coolies making merry at a tea-house on one of the numerous festival days when all work is suspended and every one has a good time."Albumen photograph sourced by Kozaburo Tamamura (1856-1923), 1890s, for "Japan, Described and Illustrated by the Japanese", Shogun Edition edited by Captain F Brinkley. Published in 1897 by J B Millet Company, Boston Massachusetts, USA.