Gardens are supposed to symbolise abstract ideas, such as peace, chastity, old age, etc.
The Osuwa Park at Nagasaki, Japan.
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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.
Japan. Buddhist Priests
Buddhism. The existence of a supreme God is ignored, and life is regarded as an evil.
The Inari Temple at Kyōto, Japan.
The Fushimi Inari-Taisha is a Shintō shrine in the Fushimi district of Kyōto city.
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. The Bronze Buddha at Kamakura.
The Bronze Buddha at stands facing the sea on the deserted site of Kamakura.
Japan. Street vender of flowers. 1897.
The love of flowers among the Japanese is universal and amounts almost to a passion.