Country shop on the Tokaido. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of an open-fronted shop, selling household goods: 'Here may be had anything country people may want. Rice, paper, shoes, hibatshis, crockery, teakettles, pots and pans, lanterns, straw horseshoes, candles, drums, everything in the general way, and at prices...
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards a wooden footbridge over the river, with the houses of the village beyond: 'All the pictures in our present number were taken by our artist at, or on the route to, Hakone...Yumoto is a village among the hills a little before Myanoshta is reached...
Idol of Jeso Sama, Lake Hakone. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of the image, with two Japanese men in front: 'Emerging from a fine avenue of trees, we come to the shore of Lake Hakone, and upon a solitary idol, Jeso sama; a deified being who is supposed to keep the roads to Heaven and Hell. He is one of the rokujizo, a pho...