Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Sketches of Japanese manners and customs

Japanese publisher Doshisha has scanned and published online a book written in 1867 by traveler J. M. W. Silver called Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs.


An album of the book's beautiful sketches can be found here.



A sketch of koinobori on Boy's Day.


—Mellow Monk


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1 Comments:

At 6:05 PM , Blogger Ronin With Scissors said...

Thanks for this post! Beautiful sketch! I can't wait to check out the book.

 

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