The approach to Shiba [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the roadway towards the Zojo-ji Temple, the family temple of the Tokugawa clan, moved to the present site on the eastern side of Shiba-koen in 1598: 'The temple of Dzojoji stands back from the main street of Yedo some two or three hundred yard...
The Bund, looking east from French Hatoba [Yokohama]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the foreshore from the French Concession, towards the premises of European commercial firms: 'The road running along the front of the settlement skirting the sea bears this title. The dwellings in order from the left, are Messrs. Hecht, ...
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the Saibansho, or government offices, in the foreign settlement at Yokohama: 'It is the principal government office, at which the governor transacts his business; cases are heard as between Japanese and foreigners; all matter connected with land granted,...
The United States Consulate, Yokohama. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the street of the two storey Consulate building, situated directly opposite the Saibansho (see preceding print), housing the courtroom, consular offices, post office and the Consul's private residence.
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of a street lined with small wooden houses and shops, with figures posed in the foreground. Location unspecified, but probably near Yokohama.
Genre: Architectural Photography View from the street of an unassuming thatched temple building: 'The body of the criminal is not allowed to remain very many seconds where it has fallen [after execution]; but is picked up by the attendants, packed in straw mats, and carried off for burial at th...
Kitagata No Amanome [Yokohama]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the village street: 'The village pictured … was, some three years ago, some distance outside of the settlement; from which it was so completely cut off by the barracks of the English garrison stationed on the Bluff at Yokohama, that it c...