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Many of these places might properly be called cabinets, so exquisitely clean is the wodwork inside and out. The figure represents the door of a privy in Tokio. This was inlaid in designs of different-colored woods, and the whole affair was a dainty bit of cabinet work.
The urinal is usually of wood, though porcelain ones are often seen. The wooded one are in the form of a tapering box secured against the wall of the closet.

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Latrines of the East
By Edward S Morse
Published in 1893
Available from Archive.org

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Saturday 8 June 2024

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489*790

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Century:19th, Place:Japan, Sanitation, Tokyo

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• Places / Asia / Japan

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