plant
Bamboo
Bamboo as a plant people have named and used. Hollow strength, flexible rise, jointed pace — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Shōji is historically related to Bamboo.
Chamberlain seats shōji as the translucent lattice-and-paper sliding lights of Japanese rooms — lattice craft with bamboo/wood lattice speech, not opaque fusuma alone.
from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)
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Sensu is historically related to Bamboo.
Chamberlain’s Fans article seats the folding fan (ōgi / sensu) of bamboo sticks and paper or silk — folding-fan craft, not the rigid uchiwa and not a war-fan tessen.
from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)
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Uchiwa is historically related to Bamboo.
Chamberlain’s Fans article seats the rigid round fan (uchiwa) of bamboo frame and paper — fixed-fan craft, not the folding sensu.
from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)
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Kago is historically related to Bamboo.
Chamberlain’s Kago article seats the kago as the Japanese palanquin / litter of bamboo and wood — litter craft, not a jinrikisha wheeled cart alone.
from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)
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Punkah is historically related to Bamboo.
Hobson-Jobson’s Punkah article seats the portable Indian fan, originally of palmyra leaf and later framed cloth fans swung overhead — fan craft, not a European folding fan dump.
from Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke) · Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (new ed. 1903)
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Hand punkah is historically related to Bamboo.
Hobson seats the portable pankhā as a hand fan of palmyra leaf before the suspended room punkah — hand-fan speech, not the ceiling cloth punkah alone.
from Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke) · Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (new ed. 1903)
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Pith helmet is historically related to Bamboo.
Hobson’s Sola and Topee articles seat the sholā pith plant and the ṭopī hat of sola pith used as a light tropical helmet — pith-hat speech, not a metal casque alone.
from Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke) · Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (new ed. 1903)
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Zen
Shakuhachi is historically related to Bamboo.
Chamberlain’s Music notes seat the shakuhachi as the end-blown bamboo flute of Japanese practice — bamboo flute speech, not a transverse fue alone.
from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)
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Chinese tradition
Sampan is historically related to Bamboo.
Bushell’s genre scenes seat the sampan among small Chinese river boats of wood and bamboo — small-boat speech, not a sea junk alone.
from Stephen W. Bushell · Chinese Art, 1904–1906 (2nd ed. 1909)
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Sedan chair is historically related to Bamboo.
Bushell’s street and figure scenes seat the Chinese sedan chair / litter among bamboo-and-wood conveyances — litter speech, not a wheeled cart alone.
from Stephen W. Bushell · Chinese Art, 1904–1906 (2nd ed. 1909)
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Sheng is historically related to Bamboo.
Bushell’s music notes seat the sheng as the Chinese mouth organ of bamboo pipes — bamboo-pipe speech, not a Western organ dump.
from Stephen W. Bushell · Chinese Art, 1904–1906 (2nd ed. 1909)
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Dizi is historically related to Bamboo.
Bushell seats the dizi as the Chinese transverse bamboo flute — bamboo flute speech, not a sheng mouth organ alone.
from Stephen W. Bushell · Chinese Art, 1904–1906 (2nd ed. 1909)
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Xiao is historically related to Bamboo.
Bushell seats the xiao as the Chinese end-blown bamboo flute — vertical flute speech, not a transverse dizi alone.
from Stephen W. Bushell · Chinese Art, 1904–1906 (2nd ed. 1909)
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sources
- Things Japanese · Basil Hall Chamberlain
Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese (5th ed. 1905).
- Chinese Art · Stephen W. Bushell
Stephen W. Bushell, Chinese Art (V&A handbook, 1904–1906).
- Hobson-Jobson · Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke)
Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell, Hobson-Jobson (new ed. William Crooke, 1903).