Onidaiko (demon drum dance) is a traditional arts that signifies Sado. Dance with valiant music

Sado Island is filled with excellent traditional art and folk songs. It has matured with the cultural climate of the island

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Zeami was exiled to Sado in the Eikyo Era. There is a temporary stage

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Album des Charges du Jour: THE EMPEROR MOROCCO CONSULTING THE CELEBRATED SORCERER DESBAROLLES. －Here is a little line which indicates to me that you are destined to receive a great drubbing!..

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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 68: A FASHIONABLE SUIT: －Sir, I swear that this suit is very becoming!... －Yes it's becoming and economical... with a similar [short] jacket you can perfectly well open the door when [the bell], is rung, and pass yourself off as your own man-servant!..

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BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 1: THE SELLER OF SECURITY [WATCH] CHAINS: The security [watch] chain is so called because it is a secure means of knowing that the ninny who buys it owns a watch. Accomplices stationed in the vicinity are not slow to turn this sign to a profit. Bertrand sold the chain, Macaire deals with the watch

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The Salon of 1842: Charmed to see himself exhibited, the original seen here takes his wife to the Salon, and places her in front of his own image, in order to rejoice in the crowd's judgment. －Look, say some, it's Chinese Commissioner Lin! －No, says others, don't you see that it's a bit of natural history! － It is, joins in a gentleman with a catalogue, it is the portrait of Mr. D..., insurance broker. －Well, with a bonce like that he needn't insure it, because no one would steal it. (His lady wife leaves, extremely flattered.)

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The Salon of 1842: Charmed to see himself exhibited, the original seen here takes his wife to the Salon, and places her in front of his own image, in order to rejoice in the crowd's judgment. －Look, say some, it's Chinese Commissioner Lin! －No, says others, don't you see that it's a bit of natural history! － It is, joins in a gentleman with a catalogue, it is the portrait of Mr. D..., insurance broker. －Well, with a bonce like that he needn't insure it, because no one would steal it. (His lady wife leaves, extremely flattered.)

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 17: THE PENAL CODE. The Chinese legislators have decreed that all the accused will answer a summons freely in front of their judges, and so they are brought before the examining magistrate between two policemen and bound with handcuffs, which in fact leaves them no more liberty than to sneeze. Moreover justice is delivered with such promptness in the Celestial Empire that it is very rare for he who has been cautioned to remain more than eight months before attending his trial, finally the solemn day arrives when he sees himself sentenced to a fortnight in prison, and the capped mandarin has the goodness to explain to him that this fortnight is not to be confused with the eight months he has already spent behind bolted doors

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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 30: A CUSTOM OF INDIA: My dear friend, I come to make my most sincere compliments to you... our prince is definitely dead, and it is to you, the oldest officer of the palace, that befalls the distinguished honour of accompanying his wives to the pyre, where you will burn with them!..

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 19: CHINESE WORRIORS. All Chinese men have the right, from six to eight times a year, to carry a rifle, a cartridge-pouch, and even to wear a fur cap; then they apply themselves, more or less voluntarily to night patrols which have as their goal the maintenance of public peace. Only it happens quite often that the chief named KA-PO-RAL takes infinite trouble to prevent his warriors singing at the tops of their voices “mother GO-DI-CHON” or other Chinese ballads, and it is by waking with a start that the good citizens learn that their rest is being watched over

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NEWS 99: IMPRESSIONS OF A JOURNEY BY A GREAT POET: “One of the curiosities of Frankfurt that will soon disappear, I fear, is the butcher's shop. it [sic] is impossible to see a more splendid pile of fresh flesh. The bloody butchers and pink butchers’ wives chat gracefully under garlands of legs of mutton. A red stream, its colour barely altered by two gushing fountains, runs and smokes in the middle of the street!” (The Rhine by Victor Hugo Volume 2 page 357)

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[NEWS 140]: A USEFUL APPLICATION FOR THE HYPNOTISING DIAMOND － My wife is well hyponotised!... I can quietly clear off to the opera ball... sleep soundly duckie!..

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MEMORIES OF THE PEACE CONGRESS [2]: SECOND MEETING: An American orator proves in an irrefutable manner that the only means of pacifying humankind is to force all men to wear, like him, a green hat, which they should never remove except in the evenings, when going to bed. No one even dared to contest this opinion

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Ancient History 22: The baptism of Achilles. Just as you temper a weapon of war, / Thetis, wanting to make of her brat a hero, / Steeped him in the Styx until he saw the light; / Which proves that baths are good for all purposes (On the Influence of baths, Poem by Mr. Vigier)

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Parisian Freebooters 12: The Crocodile: This has to do with a variety of species of Crocodile, which was known to the ancients under the name of Tantalus and which a Gymnasium naturalist of our time has called the Gastronome without money. This voracious whale-like creature is most commonly found in the localities of Merchants of Eatables. His teeth are pointed and very long from lack of exercise, since he uses only his eyes to devour. When he has had the perseverance to remain for a whole day static in front of his prey he sometimes ends up by having the luck to catch... a crick in the neck. He feeds himself only on desires and vain hopes, he is also remarkably thin. Very different from other fish of his species that swim in open water, this type of Crocodile is always in the dry

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THE TEMPTATION OF THE NEW St. ANTHONY: In that particular time, a great and fat sinner named Véron felt himself touched by grace: having reflected that the Press was a priesthood, he became a hermit and retired to a wild place in the midst of the steepest mountains of Montmartre. There, he spent his days and nights in prayer, and as a means of mortification, imposed upon himself as a penitence the continual re-reading of the list of subscribers to the Constitutionnel. －For his only food, Véron took at long intervals a light fragment of Regnauld pâté. －The Devil, irritated by this edifying yet unexpected conversion employed different strategies to make St. Véron succumb to his temptations, but our noble coenobite knew how to resist those things which until recently had held so many charms for him: Satan, who had taken the form of the Constitutionnel in order come in person to tempt St. Véron, returned to the road for Paris, furious. －The anchorite of Montmartre has, since this time, been placed in the rank of the greatest saints which Parisian journalism honours, and is especially supplicated by the unfortunates who have a head cold

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