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).
Within the Castle, on the inner moat, Yedo [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards moat and palace walls beyond, with a Japanese group of rickshaw pullers and others posed in the foreground.
View of the exhibition yashiki, in Yedo [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the building in which objects for the 1873 Vienna International Exhibition were arranged and made available for public viewing before being sent to Europe,
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.