View in Tskidji, Yedo [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a canal, with boats moored along one side, 'taken from the bridge at the entrance to the part of the Japanese district in which foreigners had houses. ' (p. 261).
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 ...
The Belfry, Nishi Monzeki, Yedo [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the bell tower of the Monzeki Temple, destroyed in the fire of April 1872: 'the stonework is all that now remains of it.'