2020. Issue 1 (7) VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF EAST ASIA Tyagunova E., Sinitsyn A. The tradition of shin-hanga landscape prints in the ethnic and cultural context of the transformation of Japan in the late 19 and early 20 centuries (as illustrated by Kawase Hasui works) 6 Ivanova E. The images of Avalokiteshvara and Guanyin from the mainland East Asia in the collections of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (iconographic forms) 22 Zavidovskaya E., Rud P. The earliest Chinese popular prints nianhua in Russia: the historiographical significance of academician L. I. Shrenk’s collection stored at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the RAS 44 Vinogradova T. Some remarks on the first publication of the article “Chinese popular prints as a social order and class accomplishment” by the academician Vasily Alexeiev 76 RITUAL PRACTICES Boltach Yu. The practice of “discernment by divination” in early Korean Buddhism 94 Berezkin R. Local deities in precious scrolls of the Changshu area of Jiangsu province, PRC 110 HISTORY OF SCIENCE Mykhaylyak T. Events in the world of Russian ethnography at the turn of the twentieth century as reflected in the Italian journal Archive for Anthropology and Ethnography 126 SIBERIAN STUDIES Klokov K. Between the state and the market: informal practices in the use of wildlife resources in Siberian villages 142 Laptander R. In search of a warm hearth: The fire in folklore and in the life of the Yamal Nenets 166