Homoco Valley [near Yokohama]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking out over rice-fields in the Homoco Valley, near Yokohama: 'The view is taken from one of the spurs of the plateau which, rising from the sea level, extends for many miles through all the seaboard country around Yedo … The foliage in Japan is more varied...
Genre: Landscape Photography General view of the race course, somewhat distant, with ricefields in the foreground: 'No photographic picture can give any idea of the beauty of the Yokohama race-course. It is formed by banking up a dip in the plateau behind Mississippi Bay … The upper portion bei...
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the foreshore, with ricefields and houses in the foreground, towards 'an extraordinary line of rocks, stretching about halfway across the eastern entrance of the harbour, and forming an excellent natural breakwater. It is called Ishi-hashi, or sto...