{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "mandalay",
 "type": "place",
 "names": {
  "name": "Mandalay",
  "my": "မန္တလေး",
  "said": "The last royal capital, and Shway Yoe's beat"
 },
 "region": [
  "mainland-southeast-asia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "family": "poke"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Upper Burma's capital until 1885, and the centre of the country whose men were, in Shway Yoe's account, all tattooed.",
  "story": "The contrast in his chapter is between town and country: the \"puny Rangoonites\" who skip the tattoo and are ashamed of it, and the *taw-tha* of the small towns and villages, not one of whom is without the dark blue tracery.\n\n*Inference —* he is describing the beginning of the end and does not know it. Colonial rule reached the towns first, and the custom went from the towns first."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "เมืองหลวงของพม่าตอนบนจนถึงปี 1885 และศูนย์กลางของประเทศที่ผู้ชายทุกคนมีลายสัก ในบันทึกของเชวโย"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "htoe-kwin",
   "as": "The tradition.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "to": "shway-yoe",
   "as": "The observer.",
   "rel": "person"
  }
 ],
 "geo": {
  "lat": 21.9588,
  "lon": 96.0891,
  "precision": "city",
  "source": "s:wp-mandalay"
 },
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-mandalay",
  "s:shway-yoe"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:shway-yoe"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}