468 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. 



Water-color painting (Gu-rim). Boy in house dress: the queue 

 shows that he is unmarried. 11. 



Water-color painting (Gu-rim). Lady in house dress consisting- 

 of a yeUow coat and red skirt; these colors are only worn by un- 

 married women. 12. 



The hair oniiiuient is always adorned with jewels except in niouruiug. It 

 is prohibited to widows. 



Water-color painting (Gu-rim). Lady in street costume, wearing 

 the prescribed green veil. 13. 



Water-color painting (Gu-rim). Lady in house dress. 14. 



Water-color painting (Gu-rim). Prime minister in pink robe, 

 seated on a sedan. The fan and sedan show the rank. Pink is 

 used by all officers of the upper house, either civil or military. 15. 



Water COLOR painting (Gu-rim). Servant of the tribunal or 

 chamber court. 16. 



Water-color painting (Gu-rim). Civil officer of the second rank, 

 denoted by golden belt; seated on a sedan of lacquered wood 

 having one wheel. The seat is about 5 feet from the ground and 

 the sedan is propelled and supported by 5 men. 17. 



Size, 14 by llf inches. 



The monocycle usually travels faster than the Korean horse. Officers 

 in this high sedan usually have twenty followers. 



Collected by W. W. Rockhill. 



The preceding series (Nos. 1-17) is from Seoul, Korea. 131315 (17) 



Book of water-color paintings (Hwa-chup). Bound in folio of 



the native paper, with back of blue clotli. Contains thirty-seven 



stiffly drawn figures of sages and spiritual beings, illustrating the 



mythological stories of Korea. 



Seoul, Korea. 130880 



Collected by Dr. H. N. Allen. 



Scroll picture of a Korean lady. Painted in water color. This 

 picture gives an idea of the mode of wearing the hair and the 

 house costume of the Korean ladies. 



Size, 24 by 48 inches. 



Seoul, Korea, 1885. 77071 



Collected by Ensign J. B. Bornadon, U. S. Navy. 



The pictures used in the decoration of the inner or living rooms of 

 the common people are gaudily colored and stiffly drawn. The sub- 

 jects of Korean common pictorial art are flowers, fruits, animals, etc., 

 in contrast with the dramatic and blood-curdling common prints of the 

 Japanese. 



Picture. Colored. Storks, deer eating "immortal grass," and turtles 

 in the sea. Poetical illustration. 1. 



Used for household decoration by the lower-class Koreans. This picture 

 illustrates the "Ten long lives," or those things in nature existing longer than 

 human beings. They are the sun, moon, mountain, water, turtle, deer, swan^ 

 pine, bambooj and a plant called bu-sut, 



