The Military Cemetery, Yokohama. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of graves in the Military Cemetery, with the city beyond. Several of the names on the closer graves are clearly legible.
General view of headstones in a Japanese cemetery: 'They are generally on rising ground; sometimes in the rear of the temples, but more frequently under the shade of umbrageous trees away from the dwellings of men. They are of all sizes — some containing but a few rude lichen-covered stones, oth...
Graves of the Heroes, Nagasaki. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the row of headstones, 'erected to the memory of some of the heroes of the civil war. Their remains were removed from the places of original interment to this cemetery, because the government deem it well to have their loyalty and braver...
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.
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across a field towards the headstones of the cemetery, with figures posed in the foreground: 'This is so commonly seen — a burial ground on the confines of a village, amid fields — only separated from them by a narrow footpath, and reposing under the sh...
Grave of a Japanese student in America. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Showing four young Japanese men gathered round the grave of Taro Kusakabe, a student at Rutgers College, who died in 1870. The grave is in the Japanese Burial Lot in Willow Grove Cemetery, New Brunswick: 'At the right of the monument, stands Mr Kozo Sugiura, now thir...