The burial place of the Tycoons [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the outer courtyard of one of the tombs: 'From the days of the fourth successor of Iyeyas, the founder of the late dynasty of Tycoons, these beautiful grounds in Shiba have been appropriated for the purpose of Tycoonal sepulture … In the outer quadrangle...
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...