A Palanquin in India
There have been various modifications of the litter, familiar examples being the funeral bier and the modern stretcher. Another development is the palanquin, a distinctive form of transport in the East.
Veil of Hindu bride
Blacksmiths
Blacksmiths The blacksmiths, with the exception of those who use the sledge-hammer, sit as do the carpenters while they hammer the iron. I wish you could see them at work with their simple apparatus. They have small anvils, which they place in a hole made in a log of wood which is buried in the ground. They do not use such bellows as you see in America.
Battle-flag Captured in the Han Forts, 1871
House and Garden of a Noble
Breech-loading Cannon of Corean Manufacture
The Entering Wedge of Civilization
Coin of Modern Chō-sen
Corean Coin
Acity in Corea
The Founder of Fuyu Crossing the Sungari River
Coin of the Sam-han, or the Three Kingdoms
Two-masted Corean Vessel
The Walls of Seoul
Magistrate and Servant
Corean Knight of the Sixteenth Century
Styles of Hair-dressing in Corea
A Pleasure-party on the River
A Pleasure-party on the River
Table Spread for Festal Occasions
Gentlemen’s Garments and Dress Patterns
Thatched House near Seoul
Battle-flag Captured by the Americans in 1871
Dial of old clock
The Japanese division of time is peculiar. The day, from the beginning of morning twilight to the end of evening twilight, is divided into six hours, and the night, from the beginning to the end of darkness, into six other hours. Of course the length of these hours is constantly varying. Their names (according to Titsingh) are as follows: Kokonotsu [nine], noon, and midnight; Yatsu [eight], about our two o’clock; Nanatsu [seven], from four to five; Mutsu [six], end of the evening and commencement of morning twilight; Itsutsu [five], eight to nine; Yotsu [four], about ten; and then Kokonotsu again. Each of these hours is also subdivided into four parts, thus: Kokonotsu, noon or midnight; Kokonotsu-han [nine and a half], quarter past; Kokonotsu-han-sugi [past nine and a half], half past; Kokonotsu-han-sugi-maye [before past nine and a half], three quarters past; commencement of second hour: Yatsu-han, etc., and so through all the hours.
A Merchant Ship
The Invasion of the Mongol Tartars
The Mongol invasion took place in the fourth year of Kōan [a. d. 1281]
Portrait of St. Francis Xavier, One of the Earliest Missionaries to Japan
In this city Pinto met, apparently for the first time, with Master Francis Xavier, general superior or provincial of the order of the Jesuits in India, in all parts of which occupied by the Portuguese he had already attained a high reputation for self-devotion, sanctity, and miraculous power; and who was then at Malacca, on his return to Goa, from a mission on which he had lately been to the Moluccas
Image of Oda Nobunaga
Image of Yoritomo
According to the Japanese historical legends, the office of Kubō-Sama, originally limited to the infliction of punishments and the suppression of crimes, was shared, for many ages, between the two families of Genji and Heiji, till about 1180, when a civil war broke out between these families, and the latter, having triumphed, assumed such power that the Dairi commissioned Yoritomo, a member of the defeated family of Genji, to inflict punishment upon him. Yoritomo renewed the war, killed Heiji, and was himself appointed Kubō-Sama, but ended with usurping a greater power than any of his predecessors
The Expedition against Corea
Image of Iyeyasu
To secure the succession of his infant son, the expiring emperor established, on his death-bed, a council of regency, composed of nine persons, at the head of which he placed Tokugawa Iyeyasu, king of the Bandō, which, besides the five provinces of the Kwantō, in which were the great cities of Suruga and Yedo, embraced, also, three other kingdoms. Iyeyasu had been king of Mikawa, a more westerly province, which he had lost by adhering to the fortunes of the third son of Nobunaga, he being allied to that family by marriage. But afterwards, by some means, he had recovered the favor of Taikō-Sama, who had even bestowed upon him the newly conquered Bandō, and who, the better to secure his fidelity, had caused his infant son and destined successor to be married to a young granddaughter of Iyeyasu.
Mailed Warrior - 11th Century
Japanese Ironclad of about 1600 A.D
With hull covered with plates of copper and iron, two rudders, one at the bow and one at the stern; and a paddle-wheel as her propelling machinery, fitted inside.
Young Chinese Boy
When Ah Tcha had eaten his Evening Rice, he took lantern and entered the largest of his mills
We are the Shen, demons of the sea
Tiao Fu snatched up her little-used embroidery scissors. Snip, Snip, Snip
Three Old Men
Three children and the old man
This nice large one is for your dinner
This nice large one is for your dinner a
Therefore—upon his donkey—the contrary husband started for Tsun Pu
Then he seized the plaques and flung them from him
The royal generals . . . knelt before Hai Low and bumped their heads in the dust
The king crawled under his throne
The king and his generals gazed across the river
The house of Weng Fu was luxurious in the extreme
The first portrait he painted was that of Ying Ning, a monstrous ugly maiden
So the seventh demon sped away taking the sea with him
So Chai Mi sat beside the river and sewed and wept
Rough Sea Divider
Rooster divider
Reading a scroll
Prince Chin Pa tried in vain to hold his followers
Painting a rock
Painting a rock
Of course, they wore hideous false faces
Old Chinese Man Divider
More and more sad came the music
Meng Hu could imagine a knife at his throat
Man working at the table