And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, September 10, 2021
Ainu husband and wife. Hokkaido, northern Japan. About 1900.
A people and culture Japan has done its best over the years to suppress and minimize.
ReplyDeleteWell Fish, they are, after all, are Nippon's version of American Injuns.
DeleteWhat is he holding? A live animal? Or a dead one?
ReplyDeleteLooks like he is presenting her with a Mink stole.
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