The various specimens of enamel by Auguste Racinet.
Cloisonné Enamel. Specimens of Chinese and Japanese Art.
Tag: Asian customs
The Bamboo Cane, its origin and traditional use.
The Giant Thorney Bamboo. Nothing can exceed in beauty the graceful bamboo, as its feathery foliage waves and flutters in the breeze.
Omens and superstitions of southern India. Magic and Magicians.
Omens and superstitions of southern India by Edgar Thurston. Magic and Magicians. Exorcists and devil – dancers. The practice of magic.
Buddhist charm for ending drought. Chinese superstition.
Buddhist “Tso-fu-sze” ceremony performed to evoke rain and end drought, illustrated in a charm.
Taoist protective formulas against house fires.
Taoist priests use colored charms and rituals to protect and cleanse homes from fire, invoking the God of Fire.
Paper Streamers placed on graves. Old Chinese Customs.
Buddhist and Confucian beliefs differ on souls’ knowledge of their afterlife resting places.
Kazuma Ogawa. Costumes & customs in Japan.
Costumes & customs in Japan by Kazuma Ogawa. Tokyo 1892
“No. I, Iidamachi, Shichome, Kojimachiku, Tokyo, Japan.”
Tibet. Mo divination with bones, also called Sho-mo.
Mo is a form of foresight (also known as divination) that is part of Tibetan culture and religion.
Tien An Men parade. Chinese National Day 1954.
Chinese National Day. Tien An Men parade 1954. National Day, October 1- here in Pecking’s Tien An Men Square, Chairman Mao Tse-tung reviews the marching columns of the paraders. Source:… Read More
Olunchun woman hunter under Chinese Communism 1950s.
An Olunchun hunts woman makes some purchases in a co-operative.