Japanese Palanquin

A palanquin aka palkhi is a covered sedan chair (or litter) carried on four poles. The word derives from the Tamil for bed couch.; pallakku Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2019x1540, 791 KB) Hiroshige Uragawa (1797-1858) fr: Oban Yoko-e, série Les cinquante-trois relais du Tokaïdo, Christies Image/Corbis Oban Yoko-e, 53 relays of Tokaïdo series, Christies Image/Corbis... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2019x1540, 791 KB) Hiroshige Uragawa (1797-1858) fr: Oban Yoko-e, série Les cinquante-trois relais du Tokaïdo, Christies Image/Corbis Oban Yoko-e, 53 relays of Tokaïdo series, Christies Image/Corbis... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Palanquin. ... A Sedan chair, revived at the Turkish Village of the Worlds Columbian Exposition, 1893 A Sedan chair is an enclosed windowed chair with an upholstered interior suitable for a single occupant, which was carried by two porters, one in front, one behind, using wooden rails that passed through metal... Jump to: navigation, search Tamil is a classical language and one of the major languages belonging to the Dravidian language family. ...

Palanquins are mentioned in literature as early as the Ramayana (c. 250BC). During the 17-18th centuries they were very popular among European traders in Bengal, so much so that in 1758 an order was issued prohibiting their purchase by certain lower-ranked employees. Lord Ram, Laxman, Sita and Hanuman(crouching) The Ramayana (Sanskrit: march (ayana) of Rama) is part of the Hindu smriti, written by Valmiki. ... Jump to: navigation, search Bengal, known as Bôngo (Bengali: বঙ্গ), Bangla (বাংলা), Bôngodesh (বঙ্গদেশ), or Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ) in Bangla (Bengali), is a region in the northeast of South Asia. ...

Palanquins began to fall out of use after rickshaws were introduced in the 1930s. Japanese rickshaws c. ...

Also known as

• Palkhi

See also

• Sedan chair

A Sedan chair, revived at the Turkish Village of the Worlds Columbian Exposition, 1893 A Sedan chair is an enclosed windowed chair with an upholstered interior suitable for a single occupant, which was carried by two porters, one in front, one behind, using wooden rails that passed through metal...

References

• banglapedia