Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards the station buildings, with a trtain drawn up the platform in the foreground. The photograph was probably taken soon after the opening of the station in May 1872.
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards the station entrance, with a locomotive on the line in the foreground. The decorated platform indicates the likelihood that this view was taken around the time of the opening of the station in October 1872.
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the seashore towards a rocky headland, with a group of fishermen posed in front of one of the boats beached in the foreground.
Entrance to the Shokonsha (Yasukuni) shrine, Tokyo. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking towards the torii gateway to the shrine, established as a memorial to Japanese war dead in 1869 and renamed the Yasukuni shrine a decade later in 1879.