View in the park, Ooweno [Ueno, Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards a group of smallholdings. Ueno hill was designated as one of Tokyo's public parks by the Meiji government in 1873.
Ooweno — site of the temples [Ueno, Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across open ground, formerly the site of three large temples. Ueno hill was chosen by the second shogun, Tokugawa Hidetada, as a defensive site in 1624 and a number of temples were erected there. On the collapse of the Shogunate in 1868, Tokug...
The Gaimusho — Foreign Office. Tokio. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of ministry, with figures posed on the stone steps leading up to the entrance. The building was formerly the residence of the prince of Kuroda.