Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for the Use of Travellers and OthersK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1891 - 503 pages |
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... ancient Japanese earthenware in being hand - made instead of turned on a wheel , and also in shape and ornamentation . Human bones are among these found , and Professor Morse thinks that the way in which they have been broken is ...
... ancient Japanese earthenware in being hand - made instead of turned on a wheel , and also in shape and ornamentation . Human bones are among these found , and Professor Morse thinks that the way in which they have been broken is ...
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... ancient Japanese may be taken to date from a few centuries before the Christian era . The most remarkable of these are sepulchral monuments of their sovereigns and grandees , great numbers of which still exist everywhere except in the ...
... ancient Japanese may be taken to date from a few centuries before the Christian era . The most remarkable of these are sepulchral monuments of their sovereigns and grandees , great numbers of which still exist everywhere except in the ...
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... ancient capitals of Nara and Kyoto . The plain of Kawachi , in particular , is one vast cemetery dotted over with huge tumuli . These mounds vary in shape and character . The largest are those known as misasagi , the Japanese word for ...
... ancient capitals of Nara and Kyoto . The plain of Kawachi , in particular , is one vast cemetery dotted over with huge tumuli . These mounds vary in shape and character . The largest are those known as misasagi , the Japanese word for ...
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... ancient custom of burying alive a number of the retainers of a deceased monarch in a ring round his grave , is probably founded in fact . It is related that in the 28th year of the Emperor Suinin ( B.C. 2 of the popular chronology ) ...
... ancient custom of burying alive a number of the retainers of a deceased monarch in a ring round his grave , is probably founded in fact . It is related that in the 28th year of the Emperor Suinin ( B.C. 2 of the popular chronology ) ...
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... ancient times . They are little cared for by the Japanese , and in too many cases have been used as quarries for the building materials which they contain . Nearly all have been rifled at some period or other . During the eighth century ...
... ancient times . They are little cared for by the Japanese , and in too many cases have been used as quarries for the building materials which they contain . Nearly all have been rifled at some period or other . During the eighth century ...
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