Of the woodwinds used, the bamboo flutes known as the shakuhachi and the shinobue are popular items.

* In Song Dynasty China, a fire breaks out in the new capital of Hangzhou ; the government suspends the requirement of rent payments, alms of 108, 840 kg ( 120 tons ) of rice are distributed to the poor, and items such as bamboo, planks, and rush-matting are exempt from government taxation.

Some bamboo items include framed huts with thatched grass sides and roofs, along with bamboo closets strong enough to withstand hurricane-force winds and rain ; the communal dining table and chairs, pipes for Gilligan's hot water, a stethoscope, and a pedal-powered car.

Because of this, many of the women planted bamboo leaves and salt outside their bedrooms — both items said to be favored by goats.

Bamboo shakers ( kaiamba ) filled with seeds are integral to the performance of tromba on the eastern coast of the island, although modern items such as empty insecticide tins or sweetened condensed milk cans filled with pebbles increasingly take the place of traditional bamboo.

Jamaica Plain has several botánica s, such as this one on Centre Street, that cater to the Latino community and typically sell folk medicine alongside statues of saint s, candle s decorated with prayer s, Dracaena sanderiana | lucky bamboo, and other items.

Botánica s such as this one in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts | Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts cater to the Latino community and sell folk medicine alongside statues of saint s, candle s decorated with prayer s, Dracaena sanderiana | lucky bamboo, and other items.

It is known that the Shang people also wrote with brush and ink, as brush-written graphs have been found on a small number of pottery, shell and bone, and jade and other stone items, and there is evidence that they also wrote on bamboo ( or wooden ) books just like those found from the late Zhou to Hàn periods, because the graphs for a writing brush ( 聿 yù ) and bamboo book ( 冊 cè, a book of thin vertical slats or slips with horizontal string binding, like a Venetian blind turned 90 degrees ) are present in the oracle bone script.

They are then arranged onto wooden frames for carrying, and within the bamboo are placed items such as New Year's poems, pictures, and Japanese flags.

They are also known for their handicrafts, making items from bamboo and rattan, as well as weaving.

The use of thuoc lao is always out of the bamboo pipe, which can range from 10000 đồng to upwards of 50000 đồng for items with extravagant carving and other designs.

There are lot of curious items made of bamboo and coconut husk.

The town is also a producer of rattan and wood-based furnitures, abaca handicrafts items, pineapple, vegetables, other forest products, and bamboo furnitures.

Kolkata ( Anglicized as " Calcutta ") on the Hooghly became a major trading port for bamboo, tea, sugar cane, spices, cotton, muslin and jute produced in Dhaka, Rajshahi, Khulna, and Kushtia.

Following the invention of paper in the Han Dynasty, writing materials became more portable and economical than the bones, shells, bamboo slips, metal or stone tablets, silk, etc.

They became widespread toward the end of the Cretaceous period, and fossilized dinosaur dung ( coprolites ) have been found containing phytoliths of a variety of grasses that include grasses that are related to modern rice and bamboo.

I think that ’ s why I never really left my prison cell, because it gave me my measuring stick for the rest of my life ... Basically all the people we loved and knew and grew up with simply became fertiliser for the nearest bamboo.

Next, Izanagi threw his comb, which became a clump of bamboo shoots.

From that day on, the bamboo of that region became red-spotted, which explains the origin of spotted bamboo.

Sophia owned a tan bamboo handbag which became her personal trademark, as she carried the purse everywhere, even around the house ( including the bathroom ).

Another lot, west of the sacristy, was bought from Don Francisco Zandueta ( La Union Governor from 1910 – 1912 ) and was partly occupied by a bamboo warehouse for storing tobacco rented by Chan Chin Ko Baltazar, father of Florencio Chan Baltazar who later became municipal mayor.

In the beginning, the filament was made of carbonised vegetable fibres, then bamboo fibres and finally metal alloys until, in the early 20th century, the tungsten filament invented in 1904 became established.

Here too, infrastructures followed the natural assets, and tourists can now stay in themed resorts, featuring of course hot baths perfumed with bamboo.

The tourists can drive through dense patches of sal and bamboo in the park.

Men fight each other to take pieces of the delluge bamboo as it is a symbol of good fortune.

It is also sometimes known at " take no furusato " or the hometown of bamboo.

The modern form of kendo really began to take shape with the introduction of bamboo swords, called shinai, and the set of lightweight wooden armour, called bogu, by Naganuma Sirōzaemon Kunisato ( 長沼 四郎左衛門 国郷, 1688 – 1767 ), which allowed for the practice of strikes at full speed and power without risk of injury to the competitors.

The most common trees and plants found in Japanese gardens are the azalea ( tsutsuji ), the camellia ( tsubaki ), the oak ( kashiwa ), the Japanese apricot ( ume ), cherry ( sakura ), maple ( momiji ), the willow ( yanagi ), the ginkgo ( ichō ), the Japanese cypress ( hinoki ), the Japanese cedar ( sugi ), pine ( matsu ), and bamboo ( take ).

Shouchikubai is a popular choice, a combination of pine ( matsu ), bamboo ( take ) and ume plum blossoms, ( green, red and white ) which are usually associated with celebrations.

Some other woods commonly used to make bachi are ( Japanese names in parentheses ): maple ( 楓, kaede ), pine ( 松, matsu ), cypress ( 檜, hinoki ), magnolia ( 朴, hou / hō ), beech ( 椈, buna ) and bamboo ( 竹, take ).

In the first years of the twentieth century Landor was interested in making flying machines with bamboo and taffeta, but abandoned these inventions to take up traveling again.

Itneg women also cook the meals, gather wild vegetables and weave bamboo mats and baskets, while the men cut timber, build houses and take extended hunting and fishing trips.

It also shows how personal gardens had begun to take root in China — in addition to the immense walled garden on the far left of the scroll, for example, one sees several private gardens with their man-made mountains and rockery ( for example, the small private garden close to the city gate, squeezed between a chemist's shop and a large building selling furniture, consisting of a small pond surrounded by trees and bamboo ).

The company was founded in 1895 by brothers Takejirō Otani and Matsujirō Shirai as a kabuki production company, and named in 1902 after the combined characters of take ( bamboo ) and matsu ( pine ) from their names, reflecting the traditional three symbols of happiness, bamboo, pine, and plum.

He accommodated to some Burmese customs and built a zayat, the customary bamboo and thatch reception shelter, on the street near his home as a reception room and meeting place for Burmese men.

I particularly remember one song that she sang about finding a man in the park and asking her mother if she could bring him home to keep in her wardrobe as she attacked this chinese dulcimer with two bamboo sticks.

The town is also home to artisans who produce hand-made earthenware and woven bamboo products.

It is home to five of the eight volcanoes of the Virunga Mountains ( Karisimbi, Bisoke, Muhabura, Gahinga and Sabyinyo ), which are covered in rainforest and bamboo.

Chinese records dating back 1700 years note the use of natural gas in the home for light and heat via bamboo pipes to the dwellings.

So he takes Ryo back to his home in an unknown remote mountain where Ryo learns many physics defying paranormal tricks like standing on a short piece of bamboo stick floating on the water surface.

Notable features include a bamboo garden, a Zen garden, a strolling garden ( the Hill and Pond Garden ), tea houses, and the Cultural Exchange Center, a replica of a 19th century Japanese home and storefront.

Making a few stops at some local stores, Mimiko comes home to her house in a bamboo grove and finds a baby panda named Panny sleeping on the back doorstep.

The Xaphoon has been made commercially available by Brian Wittman since 1975 ; Wittman still makes approximately 1500 bamboo instruments per year by hand at his home on the island of Maui, Hawaii, using local bamboo selected from the forests of the eastern end of the island.

He also makes shakuhachi and other bamboo instruments at his home workshop in the Japanese countryside.