People with Drums (East Asia): vintage photo gallery
Hello friends, Samm Bennett here. This is a collection of vintage photographs featuring people from China, Japan and Korea (also Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia...) with drums and percussion instruments. New pics always added to the top of this page. Come back again! Hope you enjoy!
Japan, February 14, 1947
Nanai shaman (seated) with his assistant, 1895 - (thanks for posting, Charles Noyes)
Japan
Chinese percussion band. via
Geisha with tsuzumi, and singer - Japan
Geisha with tsuzumii. via
Tibetan holy man with drum and thigh bone trumpet
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Japanese schoolgirls with parade drums
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Nepal : Shaman Playing the Dhyāngro frame drum From an Undated Postcard source
Japan
Japan. Note the oversize bulb-horn mounted atop his two-drum setup. A passerby seems amused.
Japan
China source
Japan
Geisha with tsuzumi - Japan
an old postcard: Japanese geisha with tsuzumi
Japan - an old postcard