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

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

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"Okesa Watermelons" grown in Sado had been shipped out the island from the early Showa period

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Sado Mine in Aikawa is the symbol of the island. Shot with infrared film which was rare in those days

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Jizo worshipping is deeply rooted in Sado culture and the island is dotted with halls for praying. At Owada, Kanazawa Village

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Yajima/Kyojima, scenic beauty of Minami Sado. Ogi Geisha swim with their hair in a Shimada

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

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ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 12: What's the matter with you, Robert? you seem full of care. －Yes I'm vexed... Those devils of Shareholders have tormented me so much, tormented me so much that I gave them a dividend. －Deuce! a real dividend? －Yes, I gave it to them completely.. －What are you goin to do? －I'm going to try to get it back

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PARISIANS TYPES 26: Yes, Sir, your respectable air encourages me: you see in me a first tenor who has lost his DO, but who still has his wife. With eighteen children, and nothing more! nooo... thing mmmm... ore; lend me fifteen pounds or so! －I've only got a forty franc piece on me! －I'll give it back to you!

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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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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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Ancient History 29: Telemachus and Mentor. Seeing his languorous pupil. / Burning for Eucharis with a fire always new / Mentor, with a punch, pitched him straight into the water / To make him abandon the island (Unique quatrain by Mr. Duponchel)

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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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