Genre: Portrait Photography View of the stallholder and customer, the latter using a blowpipe: 'The sweetmeat man with his stall and 'blower' is quite an institution in Japan. In his tray he has 'candies' of many kinds large and small; the would-be possessor of which pays a trifle, and blows a ...
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 ...
Telegraph gang, near Yedo [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Industrial Photography Showing a gang at work erecting a telegraph pole beside a railway line, under the supervision of European foremen: 'The telegraph is fast extending throughout the realm. Already the wires are complete between Kobe and Yedo — and but for the typhoon of the 25th Augu...