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Portrait of An Early Japanese Cross-Dresser 
1870s (ca) 
  
Ambrotype 
3.5 x 2.75 in (89 x 70 mm) 
  
Charles Schwartz Ltd 
 
LL/23108 
  
This image is notable as the man appears to be a cross-dresser; he is wearing a woman's kimono. There is an inscription, written in ink and brush, on the inside of the case bottom, underneath the glass plate which reads, "Young man, age 20.5." 
 

 
  
 
  
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