The art of tattooing is carried to great perfection in Japan
Japan. Tattooed postman, 19th c.
Category: 1897
Ikebana. The arrangement of flowers in Japan.
Traditional rules established by the various “flower schools” have prevailed since the sixteenth century.
A Koto player. Japanese musical instrument
The koto is the most important of Japanese musical instruments
The Osuwa Park at Nagasaki, Japan.
Gardens are supposed to symbolise abstract ideas, such as peace, chastity, old age, etc.
Japanese shoes. Historical shoe styles around 1900.
The variety of Japanese shoe shapes and designs is mainly tailored to the weather conditions and the wearer’s profession.
Japanese dancers in posture and gestures.
The training of the dancing girl usually begins when she is about seven years of age.
Japan. Mount Fuji as seen from Kashiwabara.
Mount Fuji as seen from Kashiwabara, 1897, by Kazumasa Ogawa.
Yomei-mon at Nikko, Japan.
This exquisitely beautiful structure called Yomei-mon is accounted the finest of its kind in all Japan.
Japan. Street vender of flowers. 1897.
The love of flowers among the Japanese is universal and amounts almost to a passion.
The spirit or ghost dance headdress of the Apache.
The Medicine-men of the Apache. The spirit or ghost dance headdress of the Apache. Apache kan or gods (Drawn by Apache).