(79707) Time-chart A.D. 800-A.D. 1500
Time-chart A.D. 800-A.D. 1500

(25309) Boys' Concert—Flute, Drum, and Song
In the picture are two boys who are fond of music. One has a flute, which is made of bamboo wood. These flutes are easy to make, as bamboo wood grows hollow, with cross divisions at intervals. If you cut a piece with a division forming one end you need only make the outside holes in order to finish your flute. The child sitting down has a drum. His drum and the paper lanterns hanging up have painted on them an ornament which is also the crest of the house of "Arima." If these boys belong to this family they wear the same crest embroidered on the centre of the backs of their coats.

(19984) Young Chinese Boy

(19670) Nose

(18753) Painting a rock
Painting a rock

(18540) Rooster divider

(18477) Reading a scroll

(18142) Prince Chin Pa tried in vain to hold his followers

(17960) Rough Sea Divider

(17840) When Ah Tcha had eaten his Evening Rice, he took lantern and entered the largest of his mills

(17813) Blacksmiths
Blacksmiths The blacksmiths, with the exception of those who use the sledge-hammer, sit as do the carpenters while they hammer the iron. I wish you could see them at work with their simple apparatus. They have small anvils, which they place in a hole made in a log of wood which is buried in the ground. They do not use such bellows as you see in America.

(17546) Man working at the table

(17535) Of course, they wore hideous false faces

(17498) Old Chinese Man Divider

(17420) Then he seized the plaques and flung them from him

(17265) Veil of Hindu bride

(17104) Meng Hu could imagine a knife at his throat

(17067) We are the Shen, demons of the sea

(16785) Tiao Fu snatched up her little-used embroidery scissors. Snip, Snip, Snip

(16778) Three Old Men

(16769) So the seventh demon sped away taking the sea with him

(16730) Therefore—upon his donkey—the contrary husband started for Tsun Pu

(16718) So Chai Mi sat beside the river and sewed and wept

(16672) More and more sad came the music

(16562) This nice large one is for your dinner a

(16466) The first portrait he painted was that of Ying Ning, a monstrous ugly maiden

(16375) The house of Weng Fu was luxurious in the extreme

(16328) The king and his generals gazed across the river

(16253) This nice large one is for your dinner

(16244) Three children and the old man

(16076) The king crawled under his throne

(16050) The royal generals . . . knelt before Hai Low and bumped their heads in the dust

(15634) The Invasion of the Mongol Tartars
The Mongol invasion took place in the fourth year of Kōan [a. d. 1281]

(15499) Portrait of St. Francis Xavier, One of the Earliest Missionaries to Japan
In this city Pinto met, apparently for the first time, with Master Francis Xavier, general superior or provincial of the order of the Jesuits in India, in all parts of which occupied by the Portuguese he had already attained a high reputation for self-devotion, sanctity, and miraculous power; and who was then at Malacca, on his return to Goa, from a mission on which he had lately been to the Moluccas

(15333) Knight of the end of the Thirteenth Century
The cut is a spirited little sketch of a mounted knight. The horse, it may be admitted, is very like those which children draw nowadays, but it has more life in it than most of the drawings of that day; and the way in which the knight sits his horse is much more artistic. The picture shows the equipment of the knight very clearly, and it is specially valuable as an early example of horse trappings, and as an authority for the shape of the saddle, with its high pommel and croupe.

(15277) Dial of old clock
The Japanese division of time is peculiar. The day, from the beginning of morning twilight to the end of evening twilight, is divided into six hours, and the night, from the beginning to the end of darkness, into six other hours. Of course the length of these hours is constantly varying. Their names (according to Titsingh) are as follows: Kokonotsu [nine], noon, and midnight; Yatsu [eight], about our two o’clock; Nanatsu [seven], from four to five; Mutsu [six], end of the evening and commencement of morning twilight; Itsutsu [five], eight to nine; Yotsu [four], about ten; and then Kokonotsu again. Each of these hours is also subdivided into four parts, thus: Kokonotsu, noon or midnight; Kokonotsu-han [nine and a half], quarter past; Kokonotsu-han-sugi [past nine and a half], half past; Kokonotsu-han-sugi-maye [before past nine and a half], three quarters past; commencement of second hour: Yatsu-han, etc., and so through all the hours.

(15228) Eating Stand for the Children
Yoshi-san and his Grandmother go to visit the great temple at Shiba. They walk up its steep stairs, and arrive at the lacquered threshold. Here they place aside their wooden clogs, throw a few coins into a huge box standing on the floor. It is covered with a wooden grating so constructed as to prevent pilfering hands afterward removing the coin. Then they pull a thick rope attached to a big brass bell like an exaggerated sheep-bell, hanging from the ceiling, but which gives forth but a feeble, tinkling sound. To insure the god's attention, this is supplemented with three distinct claps of the hands, which are afterward clasped in prayer for a short interval; two more claps mark the conclusion. Then, resuming their clogs, they clatter down the steep, copper-bound temple steps into the grounds. Here are stalls innumerable of toys, fruit, fish-cakes, birds, tobacco-pipes, ironmongery, and rice, and scattered amidst the stalls are tea-houses, peep-shows, and other places of amusement. Of these the greatest attraction is a newly-opened chrysanthemum show.

(14901) Theodor Mommsen
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research.

(14787) John Harvey Kellogg
John Harvey Kellogg

(14676) A Merchant Ship

(14671) Battle-flag Captured by the Americans in 1871

(14572) Hand

(14569) Nose

(14510) Muscles in the leg

(14504) Japanese Ironclad of about 1600 A.D
With hull covered with plates of copper and iron, two rudders, one at the bow and one at the stern; and a paddle-wheel as her propelling machinery, fitted inside.

(14487) Face 5

(14419) Hand

(14417) Eye 5

(14408) Hand

(14384) Image of Oda Nobunaga