Group of Peasant Children, Near Yokohama, Japan

Collection: Asia

Title

Group of Peasant Children, Near Yokohama, Japan

Subject

Japanese

Japan--Children

Description

On verso:
No. 262. GROUP OF PEASANT CHILDREN, NEAR YOKOHAMA, JAPAN.
The village houses in Japan are built of a frame of wood with wattles of bamboo, smeared with mud, and having a thatched roof. Within, the floor is raised a foot above the ground and covered with mats. Generally, but not always, the room is partitioned off by light frames of wood, covered with paper and made to slide in grooves. In the middle of the floor is the fire place, From the ceiling hang pothooks, pots and kettles—one for tea, one for rice and another for beans. Good nature and poverty seem to be the chief characteristics of the peasants, and their best possessions consist of their rosy and chubby children, who all through Japan are much made of by their parents. The country has been called the “paradise of babies.” The great children’s day in Japan is the fifth day of the fifth month, when the toys of the children are displayed in every house. At this time hundreds of hollow paper fish are floating in the air, held by long strings to bamboo poles.
AS523

Source

Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA

Publisher

Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA

Date

ca. 1890-1900

Rights

No Copyright – United States

Format

image/jpeg

Language

English

Type

Stereographs

Identifier

262