Remember the Spring, 1922
“When you drink the water, remember the spring.” -Chinese proverb 1922 Japanese farmer watering field
Tag: Japan
Geisha Enjoying a Morning Smoke, 1900
Geisha “Enjoying a Morning Smoke”, Japan. early 1900’s
Legend of the Two Hemp Weavers
“Snake has no eyes but sings beautifully. Earthworm gives him his eyes in exchange for snake’s song.” – The Earthworm’s Song (Japanese Folktale) Japanese women weaving, c.1890 Legend of the Two Hemp Weavers Earthworms wear Hemp scarf’s… That’s just what Read More …
Hemp Hop, 5th Century
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius geisha/Maiko performing with Tsuzumi drum. Japan between 1914 and 1918. Hemp Hop A couple puffs and one is at harmony with nature. In Read More …
Sensimilla Shinobi, 1676
“…a successful ninja is one who uses but one tool for multiple tasks” -The Bansenshukai c.1676 Ninja scene from – Iwami Buyuden by Hirosada, (Act 1) 1855 Sensimilla Shinobi The Ninja’s of Feudal Japan were arguably history’s greatest assassins. The Read More …
Sower of the Hemp, 1900
“…before the red of apple buds become a sign in the low orchards, or the high song of the thrush is pouring forth far away at wet pale-green sunsets, the sower, the earliest sower of the hemp, goes forth into Read More …
The Dope Olympic Games, 776BC
“The virtues of hemp, it is said, are so great, that an infusion of it in water will cause it to coagulate: hence it is, that if taken in water, it will arrest looseness in beasts of burden. A decoction Read More …
Hokusai Manga, 1814
“This autumn the master [Hokusai] happened to visit the Western Province and stopped over at our city [Nagoya]. We all met together with the painter Gekkōtei Bokusen (月光亭墨僊?) [Utamasa II, well-known Nagoya artist, pupil of Hokusai’s, and collator of Hokusai’s Read More …
They huffed, We puffed, Hemp held the House Down, 1698
Mr. Nakamura’s 300 year old hemp house in Miasa Mura, Japan. Built in 1698 They huffed, We puffed, Hemp held the House Down In 1698, let me repeat that, in 1698 Mr. Nakamura’s ancestors built his family house in Miasa-mura, Read More …
Beating Cannabis, 1901
Unidentified man beating out seed from Japanese hemp plants grown on the Agricultural experiment station, Lexington, Kentucky 1901 – photo by Louis Edward Nollau (1883-1955) – Part of Glass plate negative collection