Bonze Collection

Scene from the opera, Madame Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini: Cio Cio Sans uncle, the Bonze, interrupts her marriage ceremony to Lieutenant Colonel F. B

Chinese Pig-Bonze
The Chinese bonze Tchou Pa- Kiai is the unhappy victim of an unfortunate mistake during reincarnation, forced to live this life half-pig, half-man

Bonze or Buddhist monk performing a vow to crawl on all fours with a saddle on his back. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste

Bonze defies decapitation
Japanese Bonze (Buddhist priest/monk) defies decapitation miraculously Date: circa 1860

Bonzes praying
Bonzes are Buddhist priests, monks or teachers. Buddhist monks were often referred to by the term bonze in english literature before the mid 20th Century especially when referring to monks from East

Entrance to Pagoda, Marble Mountain, Vietnam (Annam)
Entrance to the Pagoda of the Marble Mountain, near Da Nang (then known as Tourane), Vietnam (then known as Annam). A priest (bonze) is descending the staircase. Date: 1922

THE PIG BONZE
TCHOU PA-KIAI a bonze who is the victim of a mistake during reincarnation, forced to live this life half- pig, half-man Date: 1914

Regional music: Japanese gong and cymbals, c. 1870
Two Japanese bonzes or priests striking a gong and playing on cymbals, c.1870. Date: c. 1870

Bonze - Buddhist Religious Teacher
A Bonze (Buddhist religious teacher) from the Annamite region (and former kingdom) of central Vietnam on the South China Sea between Tonkin and Cochin China. Date: 1900

Japanese Types
Officer of the Taikoon in civil costume - mendicant bonze - superior bonze - military - women - soldier - man of the lower classes - fish market coolie - pilgrim

Praying for Rain
CHINA The Bonze Hoei-yuen prays to the Dragon King, successfully, for rain

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