Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking across a canal, with a boat moored in the foreground, towards the teahouse. Location unspecified, probably in Tokyo.
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 ...
Oliphant's tea house — and village of O-jee — street view. Rice plain beyond. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking down onto the teahouse visited by Laurence Oliphant while private secretary to Lord Elgin in China. The village is described in his 'Narrative of a mission to China and Japan in 1857-8-9' (1859).