Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the house of the warrior Koumangaiye, 'an officer of Yoritomo's who flourished some 694 years ago.' With a man seated in a rickshaw in the foreground.
The Far East. An illustrated fortnightly newspaper, volume III, no. II. Yokohama, Monday, June 17th, 1872. Photographer(s): Unknown
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Imprint: Printed and published for the proprietors by James R. Anglin, at the 'Japan Gazette' Printing Office, No. 87, Main Street, Yokohama, Japan. Quarto, 280 x 225 mm, pp. 13-24 of vol. 3, with albumen prints pasted-in alongside text. The 24 issues of volume 3, 1 June 1872 to 17 May 1873, a...
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography General view looking along the street: 'The Gihon Machi is the name given to a street in the sacred city which is chiefly occupied by the Geykus [Geishas], a class of girls who are all either singers or dancers or else perform on some musical instrument…' ...
Common folk enjoying themselves. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of four men seated in a tea house: 'The group … represents four servants off duty - a cook, a house boy, a betto (groom) and a general utility man — the cook, who is an adept on the samisen [a guitar-like instrument], insisted on being represented with that ...
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the water towards the stone bridge, known as the 'Spectacle Bridge' because of the two circular arches.
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the street, lined with wooden houses and shops, where the seventeenth-century English merchant Will Adams is supposed to have lived.
Site of the graves of Will Adams and his wife [at Hemi-mura, near Yokosuka]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of rice fields with wooded hills beyond, 'taken from the foot of the hill, and the graves are situate among the wood on the very summit of the ground shown in the centre of the picture.' (p. 20) For a view of the graves themselves, see preceding issue (vol. 3, ...
The Far East. An illustrated fortnightly newspaper, volume III, no. III. Yokohama, Monday, July 1st, 1872. Photographer(s): Unknown
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Imprint: Printed and published for the proprietors by James R. Anglin, at the 'Japan Gazette' Printing Office, No. 87, Main Street, Yokohama, Japan. Quarto, 280 x 225 mm, pp. 25-36 of vol. 3, with albumen prints pasted-in alongside text. The 24 issues of volume 3, 1 June 1872 to 17 May 1873, a...
Graves of the forty-seven Ronins [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of a portion of the cemetery in the Sengaku-ji Temple (see print 5), containing the graves of the 47 Ronin (masterless samurai), who committed seppuku on 14 February 1703.