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Compartment |
S-16-1-1 |
Scroll: "Spring and Summer" |
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Hina doll festival(*) |
A festival for girls, March 3rd |
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Vernal Equinox Day |
A visit to a grave |
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Sowing seed |
Using a cultivator |
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Rape blossom |
Children catching butterflies in a field |
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School entrance ceremony |
April 1st. Japanese flag. Cherry blossoms |
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Spring night |
Cherry blossom at night. First night-time baseball game of season. Scenes in a park. |
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May Day |
May 1st. May Day parade and people on an excursion |
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Children's Day(*) |
May 5th. Festival for boys with carp streamers (koinobori). Hiking. Iris pond |
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Picking tea |
On the 88th day from the beginning of spring |
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Rice transplanting |
Young plants are moved to the flooded rice paddies |
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The rainy season |
Lasts about one month from early June.
Spattering mud. End of rainy season-rooftop beer gardens open |
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Gion festival |
July 17th. Procession of festival floats in Kyoto |
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Midsummer |
Sunflowers. Sea bathing |
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Bon festival |
August 16th. A spectacular bonfire in the shape of the character dai(great) is lit on the side of Mt. Nyoigatake, Kyoto. Viewed from a tea-house terrace over the Kamo River |
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Compartment |
S-16-2-1 |
Scroll: "Autumn and Winter" |
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Typhoon |
Damage from wind and flood |
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Aftermath of the typhoon |
Rescue work by the Japanese Self-Defence Force using a bulldozer |
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Moon-viewing party |
August 15th of lunar calendar. Offerings of dumplings, pampas grass, fruit and flowers |
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Harvest |
Harvester. Woman cutting rice with sickle. Drying-rack |
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Excursion to view the |
Drinking party. Parking violation |
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red-tinted maple leaves |
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Outdoor tea ceremony |
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Chrysanthemum-viewing |
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Red Feather campaign |
Charity drive |
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Hunting |
Beginning of the hunting season |
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The season of art |
The art gallery of a museum |
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Late autumn |
Wind storm. Influenza epidemic-vaccination |
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The year-end |
Shopping centre. Arrest of gangster. Sandwich man in Santa Claus outfit |
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Kabuki performance |
Special performance(kaomise) at Minamiza theatre in Kyoto, held annually in December |
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Fire |
Attended by fire engine |
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Home-coming |
Station platform packed with people returning home for New Year holidays |
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Rice-cake making |
Preparation of New Year rice-cake(mochi) |
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Temple bell |
Tolling the old year out and the New Year in |
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New Year scenes |
Mochi decoration. New Year food and sake.
Decorative silk ball. Greeting card. Lion dance. New Year visits |
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New Year pastimes |
Japanese card games. Battledore and shuttlecock. Kite-flying. Stilts |
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Hatsuni |
January 2nd. The first commercial delivery of the New Year.(Old custom heralding prosperous
business in the year to come) |
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Winter sports |
Skiing. Sleighing |
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Setsubun |
Beginning of February. The day preceding the first day of Spring according to old calendar.
Celebrated by the throwing of beans, shouting "Good fortune within, devils without" |
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Omizutori and plum-blossom |
Water-drawing ceremony at Nigatsudo temple, |
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viewing |
Nara, to greet the spring according to local tradition |
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Item and Subject |
Scene(s) |
Compartment |
S-16-3-1 |
Scroll: "The Lifetime of Man" |
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Birth |
Maternity hospital. Nurse. Scales. Leaving hospital. New-born baby's first visit to shrine
accompanied by mother and grandmother (omiyamairi) |
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From baby to infant |
Baby bed. Suckling at mother's breast. Changing napkin. Rattle – walker – toy box. Child
rummaging in a chest of drawers. Piddling in the garden. Playing house. Piggyback. Tricycle.
Welcoming Daddy home |
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Kindergarten |
Going to kindergarten. Teacher. Play. Vaccinaton |
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Primary to junior high school |
Attending school – classroom – teacher. Forming in line. Basebal – gymnastics – wrestling – handball.
Playing with sand. Bicycle accident on the way to school. Pedestrian road bridge. Junior high baseball team |
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Senior high school |
Classroom. Folk dance. Soccer. Graduation ceremony |
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Employment |
Commuting to work. Street demonstration – riot police. First day at the office |
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Marriage |
Betrothal gifts. Sending of traditional bridal furniture. Photograph of wedding ceremony. Honeymoon |
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Parenthood |
Birth of first child. Drying clothes. Birth of second child |
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The home |
Piano-child's desk. Father playing mah-jong with friends (son puts broom by the door hoping that guests will leave early – old superstition)
Father and child leaving home together in the morning. Practising golf |
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Daughter's wedding |
Shopping. Introduction of prospective bridegroom. Wedding ceremony. Birth of grandchild |
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Retirement |
Presentation of retirement present. Farewell party. Second honeymoon |
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House-building |
The foundation ceremony |
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Old age |
Raising bonsai(miniature trees). Fishing with grandson. Family gathering with children and grandchildren |
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Death |
Illness. The dying hour |
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S-16-4-1 |
Scroll: "Daily Life" |
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Dawn |
Fish market. Newspaper delivery |
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Morning |
The morning wash. Getting breakfast. Putting on make-up |
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Going to work |
Bus – ticket inspection. Crowded train and subway. Automatic vending machine. Public phone. Office workers drinking milk at a kiosk |
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Factory |
Time-clock. Cloakroom. Employee's restaurant |
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Department store |
Clothing corner. Showcase. Cash-register. Escalator. Sock counter |
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Office |
Telephone. Office desk. Reception room. Female employee serving tea |
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Expresswqay |
Private car. Small truck. Street lamps |
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View from the rooftop |
Roof of a building: Electricity pole. River and row of trees on river bank |
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Shopping streets |
Fish shop. Barber. Housewives carrying shopping bags. Mother pushing pram. Noodle delivery boy on motorcycle |
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Evening |
Closing of fish shop: Pulling down the shutters and washing the floor |
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Suppertime |
The dinner table. Evening drink. Electric rice cooker – teapot – saucepan. Television set |
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In the kitchen |
Housewife clearing up. Sink-gas heater – gas rice cooker – kitchen knife – washing machine |
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The street at night |
A theatre – a pachinko(slot-machine)parlour – okonomiyaki(cheap snack of vegetables, eggs, etc. on a pancake)stall |
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The bar district |
Drunken customer and bar hostess. Wandering guitar player. Decorated street lamp. Drunk and friend. Maiko, young geisha |
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Out on a date |
Young couple. A discotheque. A fortune-teller |
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Public bath, entrance |
Scales – electric fan |
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Public bath, inside |
The bath – mirror – shower. Hot and cold taps for washing and rinsing |
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Evening at home |
Mother and daughter doing the household accounts using abacus. Teapot – teacup – television set |
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Fatehr already asleep |
Japanese bed(futon). Alarm clock beside the pillow. Suite laid out ready for the morning |
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Midnight |
Electric train with just a few passengers.
Noodle vendor |
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