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Incense Sticks Traditional Making - Vietnam

Tourists pose for photos amid bundles of incense sticks in Quang Phu Cau Village, Vietnam, March 24, 2025. Quang Phu Cau Village, 35 kilometers south of Hanoi, has a long tradition of making incense sticks. These incense sticks need to go through a dozens of processes, such as bamboo splitting, dyeing, powder wrapping and drying, to be made. When bundles of incense sticks are spread out in courtyards and fields for drying, its various colors like vermilion, bright yellow, indigo, emerald green and others form a spectacular scene, attracting many tourists and photographers. Photo by Zhu Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Incense Sticks Traditional Making - Vietnam

This photo shows bundles of incense sticks placed at a courtyard in Quang Phu Cau Village, Vietnam, March 24, 2025. Quang Phu Cau Village, 35 kilometers south of Hanoi, has a long tradition of making incense sticks. These incense sticks need to go through a dozens of processes, such as bamboo splitting, dyeing, powder wrapping and drying, to be made. When bundles of incense sticks are spread out in courtyards and fields for drying, its various colors like vermilion, bright yellow, indigo, emerald green and others form a spectacular scene, attracting many tourists and photographers. Photo by Zhu Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Incense Sticks Traditional Making - Vietnam

A tourist poses for photos amid bundles of incense sticks in Quang Phu Cau Village, Vietnam, March 24, 2025. Quang Phu Cau Village, 35 kilometers south of Hanoi, has a long tradition of making incense sticks. These incense sticks need to go through a dozens of processes, such as bamboo splitting, dyeing, powder wrapping and drying, to be made. When bundles of incense sticks are spread out in courtyards and fields for drying, its various colors like vermilion, bright yellow, indigo, emerald green and others form a spectacular scene, attracting many tourists and photographers. Photo by Zhu Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Incense Sticks Traditional Making - Vietnam

A tourist poses for photos amid bundles of incense sticks in Quang Phu Cau Village, Vietnam, March 24, 2025. Quang Phu Cau Village, 35 kilometers south of Hanoi, has a long tradition of making incense sticks. These incense sticks need to go through a dozens of processes, such as bamboo splitting, dyeing, powder wrapping and drying, to be made. When bundles of incense sticks are spread out in courtyards and fields for drying, its various colors like vermilion, bright yellow, indigo, emerald green and others form a spectacular scene, attracting many tourists and photographers. Photo by Zhu Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Incense Sticks Traditional Making - Vietnam

A tourist tries to make an incense stick in Quang Phu Cau Village, Vietnam, March 24, 2025. Quang Phu Cau Village, 35 kilometers south of Hanoi, has a long tradition of making incense sticks. These incense sticks need to go through a dozens of processes, such as bamboo splitting, dyeing, powder wrapping and drying, to be made. When bundles of incense sticks are spread out in courtyards and fields for drying, its various colors like vermilion, bright yellow, indigo, emerald green and others form a spectacular scene, attracting many tourists and photographers. Photo by Zhu Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Incense Sticks Traditional Making - Vietnam

A villager arranges incense sticks in Quang Phu Cau Village, Vietnam, March 24, 2025. Quang Phu Cau Village, 35 kilometers south of Hanoi, has a long tradition of making incense sticks. These incense sticks need to go through a dozens of processes, such as bamboo splitting, dyeing, powder wrapping and drying, to be made. When bundles of incense sticks are spread out in courtyards and fields for drying, its various colors like vermilion, bright yellow, indigo, emerald green and others form a spectacular scene, attracting many tourists and photographers. Photo by Zhu Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Incense Sticks Traditional Making - Vietnam

A villager demonstrates how to make incense sticks in Quang Phu Cau Village, Vietnam, March 24, 2025. Quang Phu Cau Village, 35 kilometers south of Hanoi, has a long tradition of making incense sticks. These incense sticks need to go through a dozens of processes, such as bamboo splitting, dyeing, powder wrapping and drying, to be made. When bundles of incense sticks are spread out in courtyards and fields for drying, its various colors like vermilion, bright yellow, indigo, emerald green and others form a spectacular scene, attracting many tourists and photographers. Photo by Zhu Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Incense Sticks Traditional Making - Vietnam

A tourist poses for photos amid bundles of incense sticks in Quang Phu Cau Village, Vietnam, March 24, 2025. Quang Phu Cau Village, 35 kilometers south of Hanoi, has a long tradition of making incense sticks. These incense sticks need to go through a dozens of processes, such as bamboo splitting, dyeing, powder wrapping and drying, to be made. When bundles of incense sticks are spread out in courtyards and fields for drying, its various colors like vermilion, bright yellow, indigo, emerald green and others form a spectacular scene, attracting many tourists and photographers. Photo by Zhu Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Incense Sticks Traditional Making - Vietnam

A villager arranges incense sticks in Quang Phu Cau Village, Vietnam, March 24, 2025. Quang Phu Cau Village, 35 kilometers south of Hanoi, has a long tradition of making incense sticks. These incense sticks need to go through a dozens of processes, such as bamboo splitting, dyeing, powder wrapping and drying, to be made. When bundles of incense sticks are spread out in courtyards and fields for drying, its various colors like vermilion, bright yellow, indigo, emerald green and others form a spectacular scene, attracting many tourists and photographers. Photo by Zhu Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Incense Sticks Traditional Making - Vietnam

A villager demonstrates how to make incense sticks in Quang Phu Cau Village, Vietnam, March 24, 2025. Quang Phu Cau Village, 35 kilometers south of Hanoi, has a long tradition of making incense sticks. These incense sticks need to go through a dozens of processes, such as bamboo splitting, dyeing, powder wrapping and drying, to be made. When bundles of incense sticks are spread out in courtyards and fields for drying, its various colors like vermilion, bright yellow, indigo, emerald green and others form a spectacular scene, attracting many tourists and photographers. Photo by Zhu Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Incense Sticks Traditional Making - Vietnam

A villager arranges incense sticks in Quang Phu Cau Village, Vietnam, March 24, 2025. Quang Phu Cau Village, 35 kilometers south of Hanoi, has a long tradition of making incense sticks. These incense sticks need to go through a dozens of processes, such as bamboo splitting, dyeing, powder wrapping and drying, to be made. When bundles of incense sticks are spread out in courtyards and fields for drying, its various colors like vermilion, bright yellow, indigo, emerald green and others form a spectacular scene, attracting many tourists and photographers. Photo by Zhu Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Incense Sticks Traditional Making - Vietnam

A villager arranges incense sticks in Quang Phu Cau Village, Vietnam, March 24, 2025. Quang Phu Cau Village, 35 kilometers south of Hanoi, has a long tradition of making incense sticks. These incense sticks need to go through a dozens of processes, such as bamboo splitting, dyeing, powder wrapping and drying, to be made. When bundles of incense sticks are spread out in courtyards and fields for drying, its various colors like vermilion, bright yellow, indigo, emerald green and others form a spectacular scene, attracting many tourists and photographers. Photo by Zhu Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Incense Sticks Traditional Making - Vietnam

A villager puts a bundle of incense sticks onto a shelf in Quang Phu Cau Village, Vietnam, March 24, 2025. Quang Phu Cau Village, 35 kilometers south of Hanoi, has a long tradition of making incense sticks. These incense sticks need to go through a dozens of processes, such as bamboo splitting, dyeing, powder wrapping and drying, to be made. When bundles of incense sticks are spread out in courtyards and fields for drying, its various colors like vermilion, bright yellow, indigo, emerald green and others form a spectacular scene, attracting many tourists and photographers. Photo by Zhu Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Incense Sticks Traditional Making - Vietnam

A villager arranges incense sticks in Quang Phu Cau Village, Vietnam, March 24, 2025. Quang Phu Cau Village, 35 kilometers south of Hanoi, has a long tradition of making incense sticks. These incense sticks need to go through a dozens of processes, such as bamboo splitting, dyeing, powder wrapping and drying, to be made. When bundles of incense sticks are spread out in courtyards and fields for drying, its various colors like vermilion, bright yellow, indigo, emerald green and others form a spectacular scene, attracting many tourists and photographers. Photo by Zhu Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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INDONESIA-MEDAN-LEMANG-RAMADAN

(230401) -- MEDAN, April 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Workers make lemang, a traditional food made of glutinous rice cooked in hollowed bamboo sticks, during Ramadan in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on April 1, 2023. (Photo by Harry Reira/Xinhua)

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INDONESIA-MEDAN-LEMANG-RAMADAN

(230401) -- MEDAN, April 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Workers make lemang, a traditional food made of glutinous rice cooked in hollowed bamboo sticks, during Ramadan in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on April 1, 2023. (Photo by Harry Reira/Xinhua)

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Followers clean Higashi-Honganji Temple for new year

KYOTO, Japan - Followers of the Higashi-Honganji Temple in Kyoto beat the dust out of the tatami mats in the temple with bamboo sticks and huge paper fans on Dec. 20, 2009, a traditional year-end ritual in preparation for the new year.

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Followers clean Higashi-Honganji Temple for new year

KYOTO, Japan - Followers of the Higashi-Honganji Temple in Kyoto beat the dust out of the tatami mats in the temple with bamboo sticks and huge paper fans on Dec. 20, 2009, a traditional year-end ritual in preparation for the new year.

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Former war laborers protest Japan embassy in Jakarta

About 100 Indonesians recruited as laborers by the Japanese army during World War II stage a protest Jan. 26 in front of the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta to demand compensation from the Japanese government for unpaid salaries. Some of them showed broken bamboo sticks which they said had been used by Japanese soldiers to beat them.

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Former war laborers protest Japan embassy in Jakarta

About 100 Indonesians recruited as laborers by the Japanese army during World War II stage a protest Jan. 26 in front of the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta to demand compensation from the Japanese government for unpaid salaries. Some of them showed broken bamboo sticks which they said had been used by Japanese soldiers to beat them. ==Kyodo

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The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010)

Yu-Hang To Characters: Yip Man Film: The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (Yip Man chin chyun) Hk 2010, Director: Herman Yau 24 June 2010 Date: 24 June 2010

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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III KERI RUSSELL, TOM CRUISE MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III KERI RUSSELL, TOM CRUISE Date: 2006

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Year-end cleaning at Kyoto temple

People wearing coverall aprons and masks beat tatami mats with springy bamboo sticks during a "Susuharai" end of year cleanup event at Higashi-Honganji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, western Japan, on Dec. 20, 2015, with a big fan blowing away the dust that accumulated over the past year. The traditional event has been conducted for more than 500 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A fortuneteller

A fortune teller plies his trade in the Fushimi Inari Shrine precincts. Books are piled on the table along with a few pens and a bamboo cylinder containing sticks for fortune telling. The fortune teller appears to be writing something. This was taken by the British photographer H. G. Ponting in 1904. According to Ponting, the fortune teller charged a small fee to predict romance, marriage, illness, business, and travel simply by looking at the palms and face.==Date:1904, Place:Kyoto, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐35‐0]

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A woman in a basket palanquin

This may be a shitekago because the straw curtain seems to be rolled up. This kind of palanquin was made simply of four bamboo poles and braided bamboo sticks with straw curtain attached. The palanquin bearers had no set uniforms but carried ikizue (breath sticks) to regulate breathing. ==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐10‐0]

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A woman in a basket palanquin

The woman is riding a shitekago used by the general public in the Edo Period. This kind of palanquin was made simply of four bamboo poles and braided bamboo sticks with straw curtain attached. The palanquin bearers are wearing short coats and straw sandals and holding ikizue (breath sticks) to regulate breathing while walking.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number92‐43‐0]

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A girl in a basket palanquin

This may be a shitekago because the straw curtain seems to be rolled up. This kind of palanquin was made simply of four bamboo poles and braided bamboo sticks with straw curtain attached. The palanquin bearers had no set uniforms but carried ikizue (breath sticks) to regulate breathing. ==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number91‐26‐0]

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A girl in a basket palanquin

This may be a shitekago because the straw curtain seems to be rolled up. This kind of palanquin was made simply of four bamboo poles and braided bamboo sticks with straw curtain attached. The palanquin bearers had no set uniforms but carried ikizue (breath sticks) to regulate breathing. ==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number88‐47‐0]

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palanquin bearers

The woman is riding a shitekago used by the general public in the Edo Period. This kind of palanquin was made simply of four bamboo poles and braided bamboo sticks with straw curtain attached. The palanquin bearers are wearing short coats and straw sandals and holding ikizue (breath sticks) to regulate breathing while walking.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number64‐36‐0]

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A girl in a basket palanquin

This may be a shitekago because the straw curtain seems to be rolled up. This kind of palanquin was made simply of four bamboo poles and braided bamboo sticks with straw curtain attached. The palanquin bearers had no set uniforms but carried ikizue (breath sticks) to regulate breathing. ==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐20‐0]

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A woman in a basket palanquin

This may be a shitekago because the straw curtain seems to be rolled up. This kind of palanquin was made simply of four bamboo poles and braided bamboo sticks with straw curtain attached. The palanquin bearers had no set uniforms but carried ikizue (breath sticks) to regulate breathing. ==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number49‐25‐0]

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Year-end cleaning at Kyoto temple

People beat tatami mats with springy bamboo sticks to remove dust during end-of-year cleaning at Nishi Hongan-ji temple in Kyoto on Dec. 20, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Year-end cleaning at Kyoto temple

People beat tatami mats with springy bamboo sticks to remove dust during end-of-year cleaning at Nishi Hongan-ji temple in Kyoto on Dec. 20, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Year-end cleaning at Kyoto temple

People beat tatami mats with springy bamboo sticks to remove dust during end-of-year cleaning at Nishi Hongan-ji temple in Kyoto on Dec. 20, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Year-end cleaning at Kyoto temple

People beat tatami mats with springy bamboo sticks to remove dust during end-of-year cleaning at Higashi Hongan-ji temple in Kyoto on Dec. 20, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Year-end cleaning at Kyoto temple

People beat tatami mats with springy bamboo sticks to remove dust during end-of-year cleaning at Higashi Hongan-ji temple in Kyoto on Dec. 20, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Year-end cleaning at Kyoto temple

People beat tatami mats with springy bamboo sticks to remove dust during end-of-year cleaning at Higashi Hongan-ji temple in Kyoto on Dec. 20, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Year-end cleaning at Kyoto temple

People beat tatami mats with springy bamboo sticks to remove dust during end-of-year cleaning at Higashi Honganji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, on Dec. 20, 2018, ahead of New Year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Year-end cleaning at Kyoto temple

People beat tatami mats with springy bamboo sticks to remove dust during end-of-year cleaning at Higashi Honganji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, on Dec. 20, 2018, ahead of New Year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Year-end cleaning at Kyoto temple

Children beat tatami mats with springy bamboo sticks to remove dust during end-of-year cleaning at Higashi Honganji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, on Dec. 20, 2018, ahead of New Year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Year-end cleaning at Kyoto temple

People wearing masks and with cloths tied around their heads beat tatami mats with springy bamboo sticks to remove dust during the "susuharai" end-of-year cleaning ritual at Higashi-Honganji, a Buddhist temple in the western Japan city of Kyoto, on Dec. 20, 2016. Around 140 people took part in the traditional event in preparation for the start of a new year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Followers clean Higashi-Honganji Temple for new year

KYOTO, Japan - Followers of the Higashi-Honganji Temple in Kyoto beat the dust out of the tatami mats in the temple with bamboo sticks and huge paper fans on Dec. 20, 2009, a traditional year-end ritual in preparation for the new year. (Kyodo)

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Followers clean Higashi-Honganji Temple for new year

KYOTO, Japan - Followers of the Higashi-Honganji Temple in Kyoto beat the dust out of the tatami mats in the temple with bamboo sticks and huge paper fans on Dec. 20, 2009, a traditional year-end ritual in preparation for the new year. (Kyodo)