Traditional Asian Scriptures and Art

Depictions of decorative writings and wooden plaques from Asian temples and villages, showcasing cultural and religious significance.

China, Jiansu, Nanjing. Confucius Temple (Fuzimiao), prayer plaques.
China, Jiansu, Nanjing. Confucius Temple (Fuzimiao), prayer plaques.
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Chinese characters, painted carving on a wooden pillar, Chua Thien Hau Pagoda, Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon, Vietnam, Southeast Asia
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Stele in a park, Huangshan Mountains, Anhui Province, China
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Chinese fine brush style Mid-autumn festival illustration banner with rabbit and lotus garden on blue background, Holiday’s name written in Chinese words. Retro Mid-autumn festival banner
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White lanterns honoring the dead
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Viet Nam, aka Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, aka Saigon. Chinese Temple. Candle offerings.
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Tin Hau Temple, Stanley Bay, Stanley, Hong Kong, China
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Kimono
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Old chinese lamp, china
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Chinese characters of HAPPY NEW YEAR in four scripts
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Japanese Calligraphy Shinto One of the most practice religion by Japanese citizens Copyright: xZoonar.com/KhorxSeikxSoonx 2622231
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Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, names and dates carved on trunks of bamboo (Bambusoideae) in Royal garden
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Yellow Chinese Lanterns hanging from the ceiling of a Daoist temple in Sanshia, Taiwan.
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Pilgrims and views of the Kumano Hongu Shrine along the Kumano Kodo ancient pilgrimage route near Hongu, Honshu, Japan, Asia Copyright: JulioxEtchart 1188-1099
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Japan, Kyushu, Kagoshima, Kagoshima city, Tenmonkan-dori shopping Arcade, monk, medium close-up,
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Smoking incense in the temple Chua Thien Hau Pagoda, Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon, Vietnam, Southeast Asia
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lucky wishes in chinese temple traditional lucky wishes in chinese temple Copyright: xZoonar.com/WWW.JACKMALIPAN.NETx 4567483
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Lychees. Artist: Ding Fuzhi (Chinese, 1879-1946). Calligrapher: Shou Xi (Chinese). Culture: China. Dimensions: 7 3/4 x 22 in. (19.7 x 55.9 cm). Date: dated 1941.The cool graphic beauty of Ding's image and of his Shang oracle-bone script express the pleasure he felt upon receiving lychees from a friend traveling in the south, where the fruit grows.Shou Xi's poem (on the left) describes how the Tang emperor Xuanzong (r. 712-56) employed the imperial messenger service to bring ripe lychees from Canton to his favorite concubine, Yang Guifei, at the capital, Chang'an (modern Xi'an). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Chinese New Year design. Laughing cheerful Buddha isolated against a red background. Translation : May you realize your ambitions
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The Way of the patriarchs spans a thousand years” 17th century Yinyuan Longqi In the mid-seventeenth century, Yinyuan was abbot of the Chan monastery Wanfusi in Fujian Province. After the fall of the Ming dynasty, Yinyuan left China for Japan, where he was warmly received by adherents of Zen hungry for new teachings from the continent. Yinyuan (known as Ingen in Japan) and his disciples founded a new school of Zen in Japan, which came to be known as Ōbaku—the Japanese pronunciation of Huangbo, home of the original Wanfusi. Yinyuan was a gifted calligrapher, and he helped to establish a distinctive manner of Ōbaku calligraphy in Japan. This scroll reads: The Way of the patriarchs spans a thousand years.”. The Way of the patriarchs spans a thousand years” 78058
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Japan, Shikoku, Kotohira, Kabuki Theatre, flags, banners
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China, Yunnan, Kunming, Details of Elephant figures at Yunnan Nationalities Village
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Ong Bon Pagoda (Nhi Phu Temple) is the oldest Chinese pagoda in Saigon. Ceremony for the deads. Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam.
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Okuno in Cemetery, Japan.
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Ying-Yang-Symbol in einem taoistischen Tempel Ying Yang symbol in a Taoist temple Copyright: xZoonar.com/nelsonxngx 22583883
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Japanese prayer sticks, Toshogu Shrine, Sannai, Nikko, Tochigi, Japan, Asia
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Stone with inscription, Wudangshan monastery, Wudang Mountains, China, Asia
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Vietnam, Hanoi, Ngoc Son Temple
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Mani wall, buddhist mantra carved in stones
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OCT 29, 2011 Nara, JAPAN : Saisen-bako at Hasedera Temple is offertory box for prayer to wish and put a coin in it
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China, Yunnan, Xingmeng. Poster depicting Kublai Khan on a door in the small village of Xingmeng, west of Tonghai, where some 4000 Mongolian descendants of members of Kublai Khan's expeditionary force still reside.
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Stone with Chinese inscription, Dongba Cultural Center, Jade Water Village, Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China, Asia
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Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, Asia, Cuihu Park,
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Family shrine and portrait of Mao Tse Tung, China, Asia
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The Immortal HongYai. Artist, traditionally attributed: Wu Daozi, Chinese, active 710-60
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Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Chinese Temple. wall decoration. Golden Chinese characters. Singapore.
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Phu Son Tu buddhist temple. Bodhidharma Daruma (5th - 6th century ) was a Indian Buddhist monk, and is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Zen. Tan Chau. Vietnam.
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China, Macau. Historic Center of Macau, UNESCO. A-Ma Temple, the oldest temple in Macau. Temple inspired by Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, worshiping all deities in the same complex.
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Japan, Izumo taisha, shinto shrine, ema votive tablets
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Japan: Hikifuda advertising poster depicting The Seven Lucky Gods climbing or Shichifukujin on a hill against a red sun and two red-crowned Japanese cranes. Late Meiji (1868-1912) period
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Japanese fountain with ladles at Tenryu-ji Temple, Arashiyama, Kyoto Prefecture, Honshu, Japan
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Chinese roof shingles at Da Fo Si Monastery (Leshan Giant Buddha Temple), inscribed against a fee, Leshan, Sichuan Province, China, Asia
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Elegant mid autumn festival illustration with jade rabbit on dark green background, Happy moon festival written in Chinese words. Elegant mid autumn festival
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Palm prints on a First Nations teepee at National Indigenous peoples day 2022 celebrations, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Man drawing water from the Four-eyed Well, the oldest fountain in Makung City, Penghu Islands, Pescadores Islands, Taiwan, Asia
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Colorful banners in Chinese New Year parade San Francisco California
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Fortune teller and clients, Wong Tai Sin Temple, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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Sumo wrestling ring under Shinto shrine roof in Tokyo
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fake money used as offerings for the deceased in Singapore.
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China: The face or 'heavenly dial' of a luopan Chinese magnetic compass, also known as a 'Feng Shui compass', incorporating the bagua or eight trigrams
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Welcome signs in a church. Annecy. France.
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Thailand, Bangkok, Displays at The Golden Buddha at Wat Trimitr with different foreign money
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Window decorated with the symbol of the Cao Dai Temple in Go Dao near the city of Ho Chi Minh, Saigon, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Asia