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...
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...
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the bar, with a dredger anchored at the right: 'The view is taken from Temposan Fort, near the mouth of the river. Though all seems tranquil, the view embraces a bar that when the wind blows hard is impassable … Frequent efforts have been used to ...
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View from the waterfront looking inland along a canal, with local craft at their moorings: 'The view … is taken from the foreign settlement, just opposite to Desima the site of the old Dutch Factory.'
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a wooded stretch of the Tokaido, the highway between Tokyo and Kioto, with houses on either side of the road in the foreground.