Pilgrims feeding holy turtles, Arakan Pagoda, Mandalay, Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
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Stereoscopic view, with figures on the bank of the tank in the foreground and the spire of the Arakan Pagoda rising beyond. Image copyrighted 1908, by the Stereo Travel Company.
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of the six stone images, placed beneath a thatched structure: '...the Roku-ji-zo, is a collection of six gods who are supposed to guard the roads that lead to the celestial and infernal regions, and they are supplicated to direct the way of the departed spi...
Idol of Jeso Sama, Lake Hakone. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of the image, with two Japanese men in front: 'Emerging from a fine avenue of trees, we come to the shore of Lake Hakone, and upon a solitary idol, Jeso sama; a deified being who is supposed to keep the roads to Heaven and Hell. He is one of the rokujizo, a pho...
Siamese image, scroll, etc., formerly the property of Will Adams. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of a group of images, apparently belonging to William Adams (d. 1620), the earliest British resident in Japan. The relics belonged to the temple pictured in print 4. Adams' burial place at Hemi-mura was re-discovered by James Walters in 1872, and this issue...