Last revised October 15, 2009
Photos of Korea and other countries

Pictures of Korea by Brother Anthony

Pictures taken in August 2009 at Kangnŭng of the old Korean houses where Yulgok Yi I and Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn were born.

Pictures taken at Mungyeong, at Juwang-san and at the Songso Gotaek at Deokcheolli near Cheongsong in June 2009.

Pictures of tea-making at Hwaeomsa, May 2009

Pictures taken at Hwaeomsa in February 2009

Photos of the royal palace and the walls at Suwon, taken in 2008.

Pictures of the tea fields etc of Jiri-san, 2006.

Some winter 2005 photos of the place where Chusa was exiled in Jeju Island.

Pictures of Byeongsan Seowon, Dosan Seowon, and Buseoksa after a visit to Andong.

Photos of a traditional Korean house in Gurye-gu, near the entrance to Hwaom-sa at the foot of Nogodan, Mt. Chiri.

Photos of beautiful autumn leaves from November 2004 at Bulguksa Temple, Kyongju and a full slideshow mostly from 2007.

Some autumn 2003 photos of old Korean houses in or near Asan (Onyang) once inhabited by Chusa and Admiral Yi Sun-shin.


Pictures of Korea scanned from other printed sources:

Paintings from the Choson Era

Korean pagodas

Pulguk Temple

Kim Dae-gyun- the only authorized (Human Cultural  Assset) exponent of the Korean art of the Tight-rope.

Buddhist sculptures of  Avalokitesvara by Ho Kil-Yang

A set of 20 photos of old Seoul from a book by Carlo Rossetti, Corea e Coreani,  published in 1905

An expanded page with the text of and the illustrations from Constance Tayler's Koreans at Home (1904).

The complete text of Isabella Bird's Korea and her Neighbors (1898) in a PDF file with the page numbering corresponding to that in the original so that the Index is valid, with the illustrations and additional photos taken by her.

A series of photos of Korea urban and rural, taken in the Japanese colonial period, most of them hand-colored. I do not know who took them, they were sent to me without any additional information.


Photos of other countries by Brother Anthony

Vast numbers of pictures of Buddhist temples in Shanxi Province, northern China.

Photos (and a linked slide-show) of tea-making in Alishan (Taiwan), spring 2009.

A set of stained-glass windows in the Catholic Cathedral in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia), designed by Brother Marc of Taize.

Photos taken in Yunnan Province (China) in the summer of 2007 (Dali, Lijiang, Shangri-la)

Pictures taken in Taiwan early in 2004. Others of  the trees 2000 meters up Ali-shan mountain in sounthern Taiwan in 2006 and the tea fields at 1000 meters.

Pictures taken in Wells (UK), February 2008

Pictures taken in Lincoln and London (UK), February 2008

Pictures taken in Buffalo, Harvard and Berkeley,  April 2006

Pictures taken in Kyoto (Japan), January 2006

Pictures taken in Vancouver, summer 2004.

Photos of Korea and other countries in other internet sites

Pictures of many famous places in Korea from Christopher Witcombe's Art in SouthEast Asia

2010 Lecture