Idol of Jeso Sama, Lake Hakone. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of the image, with two Japanese men in front: 'Emerging from a fine avenue of trees, we come to the shore of Lake Hakone, and upon a solitary idol, Jeso sama; a deified being who is supposed to keep the roads to Heaven and Hell. He is one of the rokujizo, a pho...
Country shop on the Tokaido. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of an open-fronted shop, selling household goods: 'Here may be had anything country people may want. Rice, paper, shoes, hibatshis, crockery, teakettles, pots and pans, lanterns, straw horseshoes, candles, drums, everything in the general way, and at prices...
The Far East. An illustrated fortnightly newspaper, volume 2, no. 15, 1 January 1872. Photographer(s): Unknown
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Imprint: Printed and published for the proprietor, by James R. Anglin at the 'Japan Gazette' printing office, No. 87, Main Street, Yokohama. Quarto, 278 x 215 mm, pp. 173-184 of vol. 2, with albumen prints pasted-in alongside text. The 24 issues of volume 2, 1 June 1871 to 16 May 1872, are bou...
Genre: Landscape Photography View from a neighbouring hillside, looking down onto the waterfront at Kanasawa, 'the most familiar of all places of resort for foreigners taking excursions from Yokohama.'