The designer of the woodcut has put in symbolic and formalized representations of the Mandarin ducks and the flames of hell-fire which were among Unai's torments.
This bird was a mandarin duck, a creature whose lifelong faithfulness to its mate was proverbial in Japan.
Some of the noble class walked, but generally they rode in carts similar to that of the mandarin Ching.
A fixed rate of charges, an honesty of administration which is beyond question, prompt activity in the transaction of business, have replaced the depredations and the old methods in use under mandarin rule.
In like manner the son of a second-class mandarin belongs to the third rank, and so on to the lowest grade; and there are nine of these--the highest two sitting in the imperial council.
Nobility is hereditary, but the son of a mandarin of the first order ranks only with the second until he has done something to merit promotion to his father's rank.
While the local commissioners have carried liberal ideas intomandarin circles all along the seacoast and up the great rivers into the interior, the Inspector-General (the "I.
The mandarin or spoken language of the north was, indeed, reduced to writing by the Chinese themselves; and a similar beginning was made with some of the southern dialects.
Not only has this section of the province a dialect of its own, of the mandarin type, but its people possess a finer physique than those of the south.
Page 294] The mandarin costume of China, though more imposing, is not less barbaric than that of Japan; and the etiquette that accompanies it is wholly irreconcilable with the usages of the Western world.
That any sweeping alteration will be made in our existing laws, I have given my mandarin friends no reason to expect.
His appointment was by decree from the Throne, published in the Government Gazette; and mandarin rank next to the highest was conferred on him.
Imagine a mandarin doffing his gaudy cap, gay with tassels, feathers, and ruby button, on meeting a friend, or pushing back his long sleeves to shake hands!
Thereupon the mandarin became much vexed, and addressing the chief captain of the Portuguese, said loudly: "How is this, does not the land which you hold belong to the king of China?
The son of the Mandarin bought it at a high price from the soldiers; he deposited therein the remains of his father.
He then told us that he had ordered all preparations to be made for our departure; that the Mandarin and escort who were to accompany us, had been selected.
This military Mandarin vas an intimate friend of Ly, the pacificator of kingdoms; they had served together for several years on the frontiers of Gorkha.
We rested three days at Ta-Tsien-Lou, and each day had several quarrels with the principal Mandarin of the place, who would not consent to our continuing our route in a palanquin.
They even applied to the chief mandarin of the place, styled Hyhuug by the Chinese, to interpose his authority for obliging their captain to comply with their demands.
There are two chief varieties or sub-species, the sweet or China orange, and the bitter, bigarade or Seville orange, but the Mandarin and Tangerine oranges are sometimes ranked as a distinct species.
China after a drake of the beautiful mandarin Teal had been stolen, the duck remained disconsolate, though sedulously courted by another mandarin drake, who displayed before her all his charms.
But I was going to-day to the Mandarin Johnny to hear his business, and if he means the same, I smell war, my lad!
He struck me as different from the ordinary Chinaman, not a coolie, yet not a mandarin certainly.
This mandarinlived in a bungalow, and affected certain tastes in deference to his neighbours--the English.
Don't ye know I told ye about some business when we started that had reference to a mandarin chap, one of the Company's customers, for whom I had advices.
What did the mandarin think of the steamer Feng Shui?
Now let us go on board, dress, and see the mandarin later.
Stanley translates the passage as follows: "Some difficulties as to setting out from Alanchan having been overcome, by the arrival at this time in Laos from Cambodia of a mandarin named Ocunia de Chu, with ten prahus, etc.
The mandarin was equally obstinate, and the business assumed a very serious aspect.
As themandarin could not come himself, or send one of high order, he sent one who was willing that the British should sit at their ease in good elbow chairs.
The mandarin who was to sit in awful judgment, required that the chief of the Company, the captain of the Lion, and the commodore of the Company's ships, should not be permitted to sit in his presence during the trial.
But while I was debating what I should do, the mandarin appeared to me again; and then, after an interval of only two days, he came to me once more.
Parratt had already lighted a slush-lamp, by the glimmer of which they could see the mandarin swinging to and fro like a pendulum within a few feet of the ballast, and still quivering and twitching in his death-throes.
Meanwhile Wo-li made a secret communication to the mandarin to the effect that certain stolen property, believed to be his, had been secreted in the hold of the empty ship.
As the mandarin came up, he leaned over the coaming of the hatch, dropped the noose over the Chinaman's head, jerked it tight, and then he and Foucault hove on the fall of the rope.
He then invented the very picturesque story of the murderedmandarin and the stolen pearl.
Thereupon the mandarin came down hot-foot to the quay-side, and was received on board by the three seamen, who had got the covers off the after-hatch in readiness.
All the people turned respectfully aside for the procession to pass, and even if a Mandarin had happened to meet her on the way he would have had to turn aside.
One carried the big red umbrella, which only a bride or a Mandarin is allowed to have carried in front of the chair.
Another day's rest at this place gave me what I much wanted--an opportunity for a long quiet talk with the mandarin of this small tribe.
My next expedition was to a mandarin of wealth and rank, whose encampment occupies a commanding site on a mountain-side overlooking a large lake.
After a time the local mandarin became ill, and the native doctors were unable to relieve him.
I thought they would never end; and seldom have I felt more thankful than when we stopped at a place where we were told a mandarin resided.
On our way we passed through one small town of about a thousand inhabitants; and here, in the Mandarin dialect, I preached JESUS to a good number of people.
Mine was the opulent splendor of a High Mandarin of China.
I opened it and spread out on the sand a gorgeously wrought Mandarin kimono.
When I look at the mandarin now, I shall not so much mind his being broken, because he will remind me that you are a good and honourable child.
But that was strictly forbidden; no one must touch the mandarin except Miss Unity; and, though she was generally quite willing to make him perform, Ethelwyn did not feel inclined to ask her.
Growing bolder, Ethelwyn gave the mandarin such a sharp tap at the back of his head that he lost his balance and toppled down on the hearth with a horrible crash.
I like that little Chinese mandarin that stands on the mantel-piece in Miss Unity's sitting-room, and wags its head.
That was all over now: she had broken something beside the mandarin that day, and that was Pennie's belief in her.
She put the mandarin on the mantel-piece and carefully balanced the broken head on his shoulders.
Pennie raised her face from her book with an absent expression, which soon changed to horror as she saw the mandarin wagging his head with foolish solemnity.
She went quickly up to the mantel-piece directly Miss Unity closed the door, and touched the mandarin gently on the head.
These fans are made to suit every class of society from mandarin to peasant--to suit the changing seasons, in different sizes in proportion to the quantity of breeze required.
There was something in the reply of the mandarin to the boast of one of our people as to the superiority of our system: "Wait until it is tried!
He replied that he must then go at the very end, because he had not on his Mandarin hat.
A great commotion was seen ahead at one place, out of which emerged several men in crimson robes, bearing banners, clearing the way and shouting out the name and dignities of a mandarin who was approaching.
The Jesuit then made a long discourse, while the Dutchman and the Dane at every period shrugged up their shoulders, and the mandarin could not make anything of what he heard.
A sub-mandarin asked his excellence how long he would please to have them remain in confinement.
The mandarin being informed of this scandalous behavior ordered them both to be sent to prison.
