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************************** Click Here to View the Main Index ************************** "Tibetan texts mention that the Kingdom of Shambhala is located north of the river Sita…" ......Shambhala, which is also rendered Shambala, Shamballah, Sambala, Shamballa,... Dharma Fellowship of His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, Urgyen Trinley Dorje:......"In 672 an Arab governor of Sistan, Abbad ibn Ziyad, raided the frontier of Al-Hind and crossed the desert to Gandhara, but quickly retreated again. The marauder Obaidallah crossed the Sita River (aka Kabul River) and made a raid on Kabul in 698 only to meet with defeat and humiliation. Vincent Smith, in Early History of India, states that the Turkishahiya dynasty continued to rule over Kabul and Gandhara up until the advent of the Saffarids in the ninth century. Forced by the inevitable advance of Islam on the west, they then moved their capital from Kapisa to Wahund on the Indus, whence they continued as the Hindushahiya dynasty. This was in 870 A.D. and marks the first time that the Kingdom of Shambhala actually came under Moslem domination. The Hindushahis recaptured Kabul and the rest of their Kingdom after the death of the conqueror Yaqub but never again maintained Kapisa as their capital.".....http://www.dharmafellowship.org/biographies/historicalsaints/lord-padmasambhava.htm#eightcentury “The Panjshir River flows through the Panjshir Valley in northeastern Afghanistan, 150km from Kabul. It flows southward through the Hindu Kush and adjoins the Kabul River near Sarobi. At this junction, a dam was built in the 1950s to supply water from the Panjshir River to the Kabul River (ancient River Sita).”…….'Narrative of a Journey to the Source of the River Oxus', London: John Murray, 1841. A·mu Dar·ya (äm däry, -m dr-yä) Formerly Ox·us (kss).....A river of central Asia flowing about 2,574 km (1,600 mi) generally northwest from the Pamir Mountains to the southern Aral Sea. In ancient times it figured significantly in the history of Persia and in the campaigns of Alexander the Great. "DĀITYĀ, VAŊHVĪ.......the name of a river connected with the religious law, frequently identified in scholarly literature with the Oxus.....According to the Avesta, the Dāityā river was to be venerated (Yt. 1.21). On its banks Zairi.vari offered a sacrifice to Anāhitā (Yt. 5.112; see anāhīd) and Vīštāspa to both Anāhitā (Yt. 9.29) and Aši (q.v.; Yt. 17.61). Zoroaster himself honored “the good waters of the good Dāityā” (Vd. 19.2). As already noted by Josef Markwart (p. 122), it is possible that Vaŋhvī Dāityā was the same river that was called Vaŋhvī in the Tištrya Yašt, where it was characterized as “famous from afar” (dūrāṯ frasrūtąm; Yt. 8.2)........According to the first chapter of the Vidēvdād, “the Aryan expanse of the good Dāityā” was the first of the best countries created by Ahura Mazdā (q.v.), and in the Yašts it was mentioned as the place where Zoroaster worshiped Anāhitā (Yt. 5.17, 5.104) and Ahura Mazdā worshiped Vayu (Yt. 15.2). This country, crossed by the Vaŋhvī Dāityā, was also the place where Ahura Mazdā gathered the spiritual Yazata (Av. mainyava-) and Yima, the best men. Significantly, both Ahura Mazdā and Yima were defined as “famous in the Aryan expanse of the good Dāityā” (Vd. 2.20) and Zoroaster as “famous in the Aryan expanse” (Y. 9.14), with the shortened form of Aryans Vaēǰah."......http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/daitya-vahvi "Kalachakra text.....South of the River Śītā, (Oxus?) in the land of Mecca with ten million villages, the demonic teachings of the barbarian Tajiks will be established........Some of these locations described in original Kalachakra paintings. The writing near the top on the right side states: “The 960 million villages north of the Śīta”. In the centre, just above the river, is the circular form of Sambhala. The area below, to the south of, the river has many labels. Some of these labels are: Muslims, Turkestan,Mongolia,China, Khotan, Turkestan,Kashmir,Western Tibet, Nepal (Kathmandu valley),Mon – mountain region, near eastern Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan area, Gar-log, a border tribe, Western India, Eastern India, South-western India, Southern India, South-eastern India, Sri Lanka, North-western Tibet, Turkestan, Western Tibet, Central Tibet, Eastern Tibet, Western Tibet, Central Tibet, Eastern Tibet." Amu Darya is a river once sourced by a powerful glacier fed stream high in the Pamir Mountains. OXUS...."The Oxus in Sanskrit (Vaksu) occurs in the Mahabharata and Kalidasa." (Burrow: 1973...pg 126)... The Amu Darya (Persian: آمودریا, Āmūdaryā; Uzbek: Amudaryo; Tajik: Амударё; Turkmen: Amyderýa), also called Amu River (Pashto: د آمو سيند, da Āmú Sínd; Chinese: 阿姆河; pinyin: Āmǔ hé), is a major river in Central Asia. It is formed by the junction of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers. In ancient times, the river was regarded as the boundary between Ariana and Turan.......In antiquity, the river was known by the Sanskrit name Vaksu, which now survives in Vakhsh, a tributary of the river.In ancient Afghanistan, the river was also called Gozan, descriptions of which can be found in the book "The Kingdom of Afghanistan: a historical sketch By George Passman Tate". In classical antiquity, the river was known as the Ōxus in Latin and Ὦξος Oxos in Greek. In Middle Persian sources of the Sassanid period the river is known as Wehrōd (lit. "good river"). The name Amu is said to have come from the medieval city of Āmul, (later, Chahar Joy/Charjunow, and now known as Türkmenabat), in modern Turkmenistan, with Darya being the Persian word for "river"......Medieval Arabic and Muslim sources call the river Jayhoun (جيحون) which is derived from Gihon, the biblical name for one of the four rivers of the Garden of Eden......Amu Darya is a river almost in reverse, for long reputed to be sourced by a powerful glacier fed stream high in the Pamir Knot at the eastern end of Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor, and ending not at the sea but spreading out into the sands of Turkmenistan's Kyzyl Kum desert, well short of its historic terminus of the inland Aral Sea. "The Aban Yasht, mostly in a very epical in style, has its roots deep in the pre-Zarathushtrian Aryan cult, which had, among other gods and goddesses, its male and female water deities. It presents Aredvi Sûrâ Anâhitâ, a specific river and a specific goddess. Grammatically the first word "Aredvi" is the name and the two following are the epithets. Again, since grammatically "water" is feminine in gender, the name and the two epithets are also feminine. ....The secondary meaning of "anâhitâ" as "undefiled" .... .....The Aredvi River... flows down with mighty volume from Mount Hukairya to the Vouru-kasha Sea....Several rivers of the Central Asia could be Aredvi. It could be Oxus, modern Amu Darya. It rises from the Pamirs and today flows into Lake Ural. But once, it poured into the Caspian Sea.....The odds are in favor of the Amu Darya, a river where the Indo-Iranians lived together before moving southward to split into two. There is a possibility that the upper roaring part of the river was called Aredvi and the lower lake-full as Harakhvaiti. The Avestan people, moving in almost the same terrain, retained the memory better and later applied her names to other prominent rivers along which they settled in due course. And for the early inland Aryan settlers, the Caspian was "Vouru-kasha," quite the "broad-shore" sea.".....http://www.zoroastrian.org.uk "The Indo-Aryans transferred river names from the old to the new country. For example, the Indian Sarasvati was named after the Iranian Hara Vaiti after the migration in India." (Burrow: 1973..pg 126)... In the traditions of the prophet Muhammad (hadith), the river is called by the name Jayhun (Arabic form of its ancient name Gozan)......According to Ibn Hanbal's version of this hadith: "Four rivers gush forth from Paradise: the Euphrates, the Nile, the Sayhun, and the Jayhun" (Musnad, II, 260-261).— The introductory chapters of Yāqūt's Muʿjam al-buldān, Page 30 Historians tell us that one of the names for the Oxus or Amu in ancient Afghanistan was Gozan, and that this name was used by Greek, Mongol, Chinese, Persian, Jewish and Afghan historians. However, this name is no longer used....."Hara (Bokhara) and to the river of Gozan (that is to say, the Amu, (called by Europeans the Oxus)...."the Gozan River is the River Balkh, i.e. the Oxus or the Amu Darya....."... and were brought into Halah (modern day Balkh), and Habor (which is Pesh Habor or Peshawar), and Hara (which is Herat), and to the river Gozan (which is the Ammoo, also called Jehoon)..." Since the end of the 19th Century there have been four different claimants as the true source of the Oxus.... 1: the Pamir River, which emerges from Lake Zorkul (once also known as Lake Victoria) in the Pamir Mountains (ancient Mount Imeon), and flows west to Qila-e Panja, where it joins the Wakhan River to form the Panj River...... 2: the Sarhad or Little Pamir River flowing down the Little Pamir in the High Wakhan........ 3: Lake Chamaktin, which discharges to the east into the Aksu River, which in turn becomes the Murghab and then Bartang rivers, and which eventually joins the Panj Oxus branch 350 kilometres downstream at Roshan Vomar in Tajikistan......... 4:an ice cave at the end of the Wakhjir valley, in the Wakhan Corridor, in the Pamir Mountains, near the border with Pakistan. Historical records state that in different periods, the river flowed into the Aral Sea (from the south), into the Caspian Sea (from the east), or both, similar to the Syr Darya (Jaxartes, in Ancient Greek). CASPIAN SEA....called Kok Kuz (blue or heavenly eye) by the Turcomans....Sea of the Rising Sun to the Indo-Europeans KABALAH...(48E 42N)...On the Caspian Sea where the Caucasus Mountains meet the sea, in the Shirvan province is the capital Ash-Shamakha, near the famous port of Darband. In the mountains near Darband was the ancient fortress of Kabalah, on a hill, near the current Soviet border. north of the port of Baku. Location of a great castle called Kal'ah Taj. The remains of a mighty castle (kal'ah), a 'mother of castles' situated on the great Tarum River that flowed from the mountains of Tarum in northern Persia. Like Samiran, its site remains unidentified. On its walls were lions of gold. The ancient fortress of Kabalah near Darband is more than once mentioned in the campaigns of Timur. Le Strange, G...."The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate"...1966 There are three rivers named in the Rigveda to which this applies: the SarasvatI, GomatI and Sarayu. The SarasvatI in the Rigveda is the river to the east of the Punjab (flowing through Haryana) and the GomatI and Sarayu in the Rigveda are rivers to the west of the Punjab (western tributaries of the Indus). This is the general consensus, and it is confirmed by an examination of the references in the Rigveda.........But a SarasvatI (HaraxvaitI) and a Sarayu (Haroiiu) are also found in Afghanistan; and a GomatI and a Sarayu are found in northeastern Uttar Pradesh. Clearly, there has been a transfer of name, in the case of these three river-names, from one river to another.....during the period of composition of the Rigveda: the Saptasindhu, it is suggested by some, refers to seven rivers in Central Asia, and the SarasvatI in the Rigveda is not the river of Haryana, but the river of Afghanistan....... "Identification of Rigvedic rivers is the single most important way of establishing the geography of the early Vedic civilization. Rivers with certain identifications stretch from eastern Afghanistan to the western Gangetic plain, clustering in the Punjab (Five waters(rivers)). Some river names appear to go back to common Indo-Iranian rivers, with cognate river names in Avestan, notably the Sarasvati (Avestan Haraxvaiti, Old Persian Hara(h)uvati) and the Sarayu (Iran. Harayu, Avestan acc. Harōiiūm, mod. Persian Harē)." "....This chapter is one of the most interesting in the book, and contains one of its most splendid anticipations of modern exploration, whilst conversely Lieutenant John Wood's narrative presents the most brilliant confirmation in detail of Marco's narrative......We have very old testimony to the recognition of the great altitude of the Plateau of PAMIR (the name which Marco gives it and which it still retains), and to the existence of the lake (or lakes) upon its surface. The Chinese pilgrims Hwui Seng and Sung Yun, who passed this way A.D. 518, inform us that these high lands of the Tsung Ling were commonly said to be midway between heaven and earth. The more celebrated Hiuen Tsang, who came this way nearly 120 years later (about 644) on his return to China, "after crossing the mountains for 700 li, arrived at the valley of Pomilo (Pamir). This valley is 1000 li (about 200 miles) from east to west, and 100 li (20 miles) from north to south, and lies between two snowy ranges in the centre of the Tsung Ling mountains. The traveller is annoyed by sudden gusts of wind, and the snow-drifts never cease, spring or summer. As the soil is almost constantly frozen, you see but a few miserable plants, and no crops can live. The whole tract is but a dreary waste, without a trace of human kind. In the middle of the valley is a great lake 300 li (60 miles) from east to west, and 500 li from north to south. This stands in the centre of Jambudwipa (the Buddhist [Greek: oikoumenae]) on a plateau of prodigious elevation. An endless variety of creatures peoples its waters. When you hear the murmur and clash of its waves you think you are listening to the noisy hum of a great market in which vast crowds of people are mingling in excitement.... The lake discharges to the west, and a river runs out of it in that direction and joins the Potsu (Oxus).... The lake likewise discharges to the east, and a great river runs out, which flows eastward to the western frontier of Kiesha (Kashgar), where it joins the River Sita, and runs eastward with it into the sea." The story of an eastern outflow from the lake is, no doubt, legend, connected with an ancient Hindu belief (see Cathay, p. 347), but Burnes in modern times heard much the same story. And the Mirza, in 1868, took up the same impression regarding the smaller lake called Pamir Kul, in which the southern branch of the Panja originates.".....http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Travels_of_Marco_Polo/Book_1/Chapter_32 Ardavarz has left a new comment on your post "Early Shambhala Research": The White River (Skt. Sita) beyond which is Shambhala reminds the Russian legend about Belovod'e and also the Turkic name Aksu ("white river" or "white water"). There is a river Aksu in East Turkestan and also in Central Asia Oxus (Amu-Darya) sounds very similar and it was the border between Iran and Turan in the Persian epic. In Turan was located Kangha - the fabulous city founded by Siyavosh which later became fortress of the immortals ruled by his son Kay Khosrow." "Once, there had been a semi-arid zone between the fertile area and the river. Some of the mountain streams, however, had reached the river Oxus, and had formed lush corridors through the steppe. When the farmers started to dig canals to irrigate fields immediately north of the foothills, however, the waters disappeared from the arid zone and it changed into a desert. So, after 2000 BCE, several parallel zones can be discerned:....the Hindu Kush mountains in the south; ....the foothills and....the fertile agricultural zone; ....the desert; ....the river Oxus.....The Aryans first settled on the Oxus (AMU DARYA in BACTRIA) around 4000 B.C. They called this river the Sarasvati and here Vedic culture developed. Around this time agriculture begins, allowing the population to move from the foothills into oases along the rivers that flow into the Central Asian desert. The new settlements include large fortified buildings. .....The 2 rivers Sarasvati (Oxus) and Drishadvati (Jaxartes) represent Ikshvaku. Mr. Gangaram writes:” The Aryan civilisation was centered around the Sarasvati and Drishadavati rivers. We know that the goddes Sarasvati is also called Vaks (speech) and that the Sarasvati (daugher of the lake, sea) river is called Va(m)ksu in the Mahabharata. The Greek word Oxus is a corruption of Vaksu. The other river Jaxartes (Caks-sar(i)tes means eye-river) is. Drishadvati which means daugher of the eye (or stone). (Drish means: to see). The one river signifies sight while the other signifies speech. There is a relationship with Iksh-vaku (sight-speech), the well-known sage. Iksh-vaku is the great grandson of sage Kashyapa. The 2 rivers represent Iksh-vaku (see-speak), while Kashyapa is the Caspian sea, which in Vedic times was called Kasyapa Mira. Scientists have shown that the 2 rivers used to flow in the Caspian sea, before they changed their course and emptied in the Aral sea. This could be the cause of the southward movement of the Aryans. The Vedic river Raha ro Rasa is identified with the Volga river, which in old slavonic languages is called Rasa, from which Russia derives its name”.). .....From the Oxus river the Aryans reached the Tarim Basin around 3000 BC. Recently Aryan Nordic type mummies from around 2000 BC have been found in his ormer part of Aryavarta......http://lukferi.webs.com/ "Gihon is the name of the second river mentioned in the second chapter of the biblical Book of Genesis. The Gihon is mentioned as one of four rivers (along with the Tigris, Euphrates, and Pishon) issuing out of the Garden of Eden that branched from a single river within the garden. The name (Hebrew Giħôn גיחון) may be interpreted as "bursting forth, gushing".......The Gihon is described as "encircling the entire land of Cush".......scholars have sought to identify the "land of Cush" with Hindu Kush, and Gihon with Amu Darya (Jihon/Jayhon of the Islamic texts). Amu Darya was known in the medieval Islamic writers as Jayhun or Ceyhun in Turkish.This was a derivative of Jihon, or Zhihon as it is still known by the Persians."....William C. Brice. 1981. Historical Atlas of Islam. Leiden with support and patronage from Encyclopaedia of Islam. ISBN 90-04-06116-9. "Shambhala in the "North".......Another view, especially popular in the West is that Shambhala is located somewhere to the north of Tibet......These views seem to stem mainly from passages in Tibetan texts that mention Shambhala as located north of the river Sita, or that state travel to the region started by going in a northern direction......Those who place Shambhala to the north equate the Sita with some river to the north, usually the Jaxartes in present-day Xinjiang......However, there is also a very strong argument for the river Sita being located to the east of India."....http://asiapacificuniverse.com/pkm/shambhala.htm Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition: A Place Called Shangrila.....By Ashild Kolas ************************** [email protected] John Hopkins.....Northern New Mexico….January 2013 **************************
Our Chinese Architectural Book is an antique, measuring 7 1/4" x 11 1/2". The 43+ pages include photographs of sculpture, furniture design, garden structures, carved wooden archways, lighting, the list is endless. An ideal collectible book for artists, architects, historians, and all those interested in Chinese culture. Slight soiling to front and back cover; some of the pages have yellow spots - no worries! This book is a collector's item. The wear is not by any means extreme.
(Mencius. ETC Wehrner's Myth and Legend, Gutenberg and Commons) Like many other ancient Chinese writers, historians can only make educated guesses about Mencius' life. The collection of his writings, known simply as Mencius, is divided into seven books, and the descriptions and events within the work give some detail as to the time period Mencius lived in, and the various Chinese states he visited. He was probably alive during the later half of the 4th century BCE. The many ancient states in which Mencius may have wandered about, spreading his interpretation of Confucian philosophy, include Liang, Ch'i, Yen, Tsou, T'eng and Lu. Mencius was a prominent philosopher of the Confucian tradition who elaborated on Confucius’ teachings using a premise that human nature is good. Confucius and the most important students of the Confucian school, Mencius and Xunzi, based their teachings on love, human nature, and virtue. Mencius interpreted and developed Confucius' ideas to emphasize the good nature of man. He stated that mankind always leans toward goodness, just as water unquestioningly obeys gravity. There are anomalies, undeniably, but that is all they are to Mencius--an anomalous break from true humanity. Mencius supported his assumption that men are naturally good with his observation of the 'four hearts' of humanity. Everyone has the capability to become good because he has innate compassion, a sense of shame, respectfulness and the knowledge of right and wrong. Mencius also wrote about Heaven, which Confucius largely tried to ignore in his teachings. When Mencius discussed Heaven in his works, it was usually synonymous with the standard of morality. Mencius believed that if men respected and admired Heaven, thereby respecting and admiring morality, then their lives would be prosperous. Mencius used Heaven to justify rebellion against immoral rulers through the use of the mandate of heaven. Rulers must have the approval of both Heaven and the people. Nevertheless, Mencius' teachings did not provide much of a theology or a religious framework. He merely asked his readers to respect and admire Heaven, but his teachings did not call for any spirituality. His teaching explained what Heaven could do for mankind, not what Heaven was or what happened in the supernatural world. Click HERE for Mencius quote pictures.
This book marks a total departure from previous studies of the Boxer War. It evaluates the way the war was perceived and portrayed at the time by the mass media. As such the book offers insights to a wider audience than that of sinologists or Chinese historians. The important distinction made by the author is between image makers and eyewitnesses. Whole categories of powerful image makers, both Chinese and foreign, never saw anything of the Boxer War but were responsible for disseminating images of that war to millions of people in China and throughout the world.
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Tang was the imperial dynasty of China 618-907. Historians generally regard the Tang as a high point in Chinese civilization and a golden age of cosmopolitan culture. It is characterized by its poetry, literature, the development of woodblock printing and the major influence of Buddhism. Artists saw their art as a means to capture and represent their philosophical approach to life. The appreciation of women was more focussed on their inherent talents and accomplishments rather than their appearance. My series of cushion covers titled Tang Beauties is my interpretation and homage to the strong, resilient, intelligent women of this time. They are made of cotton, simple patchwork with sashiko decorative stitching. My original drawings of each woman are hand embroidered onto unbleached cotton then appliquéd onto the patchwork. Each cover is 18”x18”, has a cotton back flap closure and is machine washable. All the fabric is up-cycled from curtains, clothing, sheets etc. Each is a unique piece of art that is not only beautiful but functional as well.
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Well, here she is. Another victim of Japan's glorified system of domestic human trafficking. English translators often describe her by using the relatively polite word "Courtesan", which in the case of a Japanese OIRAN or TAYUU, is actually a meaningless euphemism for only one thing : "DAMN EXPENSIVE PROSTITUTE". I repeat : The Western term "Courtesan" is a highly inaccurate job description for these high-octane Yoshiwara Girls, and so-called translators that call her that should be stripped of their certificates. The above is one of two old photos I've posted [with the exact same caption] to give a general idea of what an Oiran looks like.....so you can spot them in other old photos (or trespassing on your front lawn), and NOT CONFUSE THEM WITH A GEISHA. A Geisha would go ballistic if you confused her with an OIRAN. THE HUMAN HEAD AS A PIN CUSHION FOR TENT STAKES AND LIGHTNING RODS The quickest way to tell if a girl is an OIRAN (or a TAYUU, which is the same damn thing, only she works down in Kyoto) is to check out what her hair-dresser did to her...as in the photo above. You will immediately notice an accumulation of shoe-horns, knitting needles, dousing rods, back-scratchers, Bagpipes, chopsticks, scrap lumber, railroad spikes, Lincoln Logs, pipe cleaners, kitchen spatulas, and chunks of old roof shingles poking out from her hair in every direction --- like gear shifts on a Mack Truck or a Backhoe. Here's another one just like her : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2334556386/in/set-7215... However, my above photo is relatively tame compared this photo showing one of these prostitutes walking around with an entire not-yet-assembled bedroom set on top of her head.... believed to be from an IKEA store near Tokyo : www.flickr.com/photos/36560798@N02/3379474081/ SO, WHAT DID IT ALL MEAN ??? Like stars on a General's uniform, this Crown of Scrap Lumber (which doubled as a Hat Rack for her syphilitic customers) was a sign of her high rank.....AND her popularity with men. Satisfied repeat customers were off the scale and kept her busy doing what she did best : Giving a "cultural" five-minute song-and-dance act, followed by some witty, though completely useless conversation --- before finally shutting up and giving him a blow job (or whatever else he wanted that his wife or mistress refused to do). Woo Hoo ! SOUVENIRS OF ECSTASY New customers of any means had to wait their turn to find out what all the buzz was about. But, try any fancy moves she didn't like, and she just might pull one of those shish-ka-bob spears out of her hair, and run you through ! --- or worse, give you an incurable STD as a souvenir of your time with her. How exciting. (One Japanese doctor during the Meiji-era estimated that 80% of the men he observed in a public bath house had some visible form of VD. Penicillin eventually came along to help clean up the situation to some controllable degree). NICOLA TESLA Rumor has it that virtually every invention born from the genius of electrical engineer, Nicola Tesla were actually based on schematics designed around the placement of the Orian's hair ornaments --- supposedly observed by Tesla on one of his many unrecorded (and still undocumented) trips to Japan during the latter part of the 19th Century. Upon seeing an Oiran walking on a pair of those 18-inch-high "insulator shoes" suddenly get caught in a thunderstorm, yet remain unhurt after a huge bolt of high-frequency lightning struck her "antenna array" hair-do --- only to proceed to ground over the surface of her wet, silk kimono in a burst of hissing steam --- Tesla cried out, "Holy Mother of God ! ..... The Universe is mine !". After buying a huge stack of Oiran and Tayuu woodblock prints for further study, he hopped on the next steamer back to America, and the rest is Nobel Prize-winning History. OTHER POSSIBILITIES....AND A TRAVEL ADVISORY Speaking of Antenna Arrays, I have no doubt that if this Queen of Sex was alive today, her hair-pins would probably pick up AM, FM, VHF, UHF, Digital HDTV...and possibly a Short Wave Radio chat from some Ham operator in New Zealand. She would also do well to avoid a visit to Pennsylvania or Minnesota during dear hunting season. All it would take is two or three beers for shot-gun totin' Cleetus or Billy-Bob to confuse her with a 12-point Buck sporting a great rack of antlers. * If you actually made it through my sarcastic caption above, you will probably NEVER FORGET what a high-class prostitute looked like in old Japan. However, it is now time for you look beneath the surface of the exotic photograph above, and see what it was really like for these unfortunate women --- either kidnapped or sold into the sex trade as children --- who had to play along just to survive : ♦ THE SET --- PROSTITUTES of Old Japan 昔の日本の売春婦 : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/sets/72157604201288302... *************************************** BONUS LINKS Do you like old Stereoviews ? See a 3-D OIRAN here !!! www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2474742195/ What ? You don't like my mocking spoof of Japan's culture of over-rated prostitutes and prostitution, and you want some more SERIOUS commentary about these girls who were sold into this profession as children ? OK. See this photo : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2701588987/ FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY For a modern-day, popular family festival that was once popular with prostitutes here in Japan, please go here and be enlightened --- making sure you scroll down through all the pics showing families and children having a good time : babibubebo.com/2008/04/07/kanamara-matsuri-festival-of-th... Finally, for a short-but-dubious history of the JAPANESE KIMONO, please see THIS flickr pic : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2347140752/ Ca. 1870s-80s photo from the Tom Burnett Collection. Used by Permission. RANDOM SOBA : www.flickriver.com/photos/24443965@N08/random/
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Liang Shih-chiu (1903-1987), a literary critic and theorist of many talents, was the first person to translate the complete works of Shakespeare into Chinese. Literary historians remember him chiefly for his conservative leanings and his infamous \"war of words\" with Lu Xun, the acknowledged leader of leftist writers in the 1930s. From a Cottager's Sketchbook highlights Liang's versatility and literary style. The essays deal with familiar and timeless topics, tempering social satire of postwar China with light humor. At a time when the common cry was \"to write as one would speak,\" and a battle line was drawn between vernacular and classical linguistics, Liang skillfully blended the two.
by Yoshinobu Shiba (Author) The full dimensions of the medieval Chinese economic revolution are still almost unknown to economic historians in the Western world, and the manifold problems that it raises for accepted theories of economic development have hardly begun to be systematically considered. Japanese scholars have been the pioneers in opening up this field, and Professor Shiba's Commerce and Society in Sung China is among the most recent and most impressive fruits of their labors. For the first time it is possible to be relatively confident, as the result of the author's systematic exploitation of an enormous range of source materials, about the parts played by transport, trade, business organization and urbanization in this revolution. It is hardly necessary to labor the significance of the advance. China's was beyond any reasonable doubt the most developed economy in the medieval world, and the investigation both of the causes that made this possible and of those that subsequently prevented a take-off into sustained growth is among the most pressing tasks waiting to be accomplished before any general theory of economic development, solidly grounded in comparative historical analysis, becomes possible. Author Biography SHIBA Yoshinobu is Professor Emeritus of Chinese History at Osaka University.Mark ELVIN is Professor Emeritus of Chinese History at the Australian National University. Number of Pages: 246 Dimensions: 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN
Historians believe that during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Cheng, scarves made of cloth were used to identify officers or the rank of Chinese warriors.Nowadays it's more of a fashion statement.Crafted from 100pct. cotton and featuring a faded logo print with ornaments and nautical references. Available in five color options. - 100pct. cotton- Faded logo print with ornaments and nautical references- One size- 50cm by 50cm- Available in five color options
This Chinese “forbidden stitch” silk tapestry is a beautiful antique piece from the 1800s. Framed and in excellent condition; showing only minimal signs of discoloration from storage. Look closely and you will notice it features four women performing various tasks in the outdoors, surrounded by plants, bridges, water and land. Forbidden stitch is described here: Most textile historians believe the name comes from the Forbidden City (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_City). The Emperors of China lived in the Forbidden City from the 1400’s until the 1900’s and they had hordes of needle workers making costumes and tapestries and table clothes and a zillion other things. The Forbidden Stitch was for the Emperor and his court and not for the rest of us mere mortals. It wasn’t supposed to leave the Forbidden City. 12.5” x 25.5” tapestry 18” x 33” frame
In many ways, we’re living in the golden age of graphic design histories. All over the world, designers, historians, and enthusiasts are uncovering forgotten figures, objects, and movements. There are efforts to decolonize, queer, and expand the canon. The linear, oversimplified design timelines man
I have recently taken the liberty of making this piece of concept art of an imperial officer in full combat regalia during th...
