Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait of a heavily tattooed man, holding a packet of mail attached to the end of a bamboo pole carried on his shoulder.
The One Hundred Steps at Yokohama. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards the steep flight of steps, at the head of which 'stands a tea-house occupied by Commodore Perry in 1853-4, when the American expedition forced Japan to open her ports to the outside world. The view from the tea-house built on the edge ...