Pictures of Korea (previously called Corea)
- Corean Costumes
Corean Costumes - Corean Hat
But the most curious part of Corean dress is the hat. There are many different kinds. There are hats for young and hats for old, hats for out-doors and hats for the house, hats for people of different occupations. The commonest out-door hat is round, square-topped, and with the wide, flat, brim halfway up the crown. The hats worn at the royal court are like high skull-caps, with wide flaps or wings projecting at the sides. The straw hats worn by drovers and people in mourning are shaped like the top of a parasol and measure two feet and a half across. - Empress Woo
Empress Woo - Mailed Warrior
Mailed Warrior - Corean Costumes
Corean Costumes - Corean Costumes
Corean Costumes - Founder of Han - 11th Century BC
Founder of Han - 11th Century BC - Corean Costumes
Corean Costumes - Kangura, or Korean Lion Play
The masker goes from house to house accompanied by one or two men who play on cymbals, flute, and drum. He steps into a shop where the people of the house and their friends sit drinking tea, and passers-by pause in front of the open shop to see the fun. He takes a mask, like the one in the picture, off his back and puts it over his head. This boar's-head mask is painted scarlet and black, and gilt. It has a green cloth hanging down behind, in order that you may not perceive where the mask ends and the mans body begins. Then the masker imitates an animal. He goes up to a young lady and lays down his ugly head beside her to be patted, as "Beast" may have coaxed "Beauty" in the fairy tale. He grunts, and rolls, and scratches himself. The children almost forget he is a man, and roar with laughter at the funny animal. - The Lion of Korea
Korean Lion represents a game that children in Japan are very fond of playing. They are probably trying to act as well as the maskers did whom they saw on New Year's Day, just as our children try and imitate things they see in a pantomime. The masker goes from house to house accompanied by one or two men who play on cymbals, flute, and drum. - A Pleasure-party on the River
- A Pleasure-party on the River
- Table Spread for Festal Occasions
- Styles of Hair-dressing in Corea
- Coin of Modern Chō-sen
- Corean Coin
- House and Garden of a Noble
- Thatched House near Seoul
- Breech-loading Cannon of Corean Manufacture
- Corean Knight of the Sixteenth Century
- Battle-flag Captured in the Han Forts, 1871
- Mailed Warrior - 11th Century
- The Entering Wedge of Civilization
- The Walls of Seoul
- Magistrate and Servant
- Gentlemen’s Garments and Dress Patterns
- Coin of the Sam-han, or the Three Kingdoms
- The Founder of Fuyu Crossing the Sungari River
- Acity in Corea
- Two-masted Corean Vessel
- Battle-flag Captured by the Americans in 1871