The woman sitting on the ground is the Matranee; a Khidmutgar boy is bringing in a bottle of iced water.
India. The young lady’s toilet. Anglo indians.
Brahmins of India. The two main classes.
The Brahmins are divided into two main classes
Hanaike. Japanese flower vases. Owari, Japan.
The figure is that of Onono Komachi, who lived in the ninth century.
Sacred Shinkyo Bridge at Nikko, Japan.
The Shinkyo Bridge (神橋, Shinkyō, “sacred bridge”) to Nikkō Futarasan Shrine.
The Inari Temple at Kyōto, Japan.
The Fushimi Inari-Taisha is a Shintō shrine in the Fushimi district of Kyōto city.
Japan. Purple Iris by Ogata Kōrin.
From paintings in colours on a gold-paper ground, mounted as a pair of six-leaf screens.
Hanabusa Itchō. One of the Four Refined Amusements. Japan.
Hanabusa Itchō was a Japanese painter and artist of the middle Edo period (Genroku period).
Kiku. The Chrysanthemum. Mythological Japan.
The chrysanthemum is the flower of autumn and is sometimes referred to as the national flower of Japan
About the blossoms of the plum tree in spring
The flowers and gardens of Japan by Florence and Ella Du Cane.
The Seven Patrons of Happiness & the Japanese Treasure Ship.
The Shi chi fuku Jin (七福神 shichifukujin) or seven Patrons of Happiness.