What makes this site special?
Bookmark this site
Japanese Furniture
Asian-inspired furniture and kitchen cabinets from greentea design
Old Books on Japan
Find rare and collectible books on Japan at eBay!
Japanese Friends
Make friends or find your perfect love. 1.5 million+ members!
Some 90 old photographs of Japan by celebrated photographers like Felice Beato, Adolpho Farsari, Hikoma Ueno, Kimbei Kusakabe, Kihei Tamamura and Kazumasa Ogawa. A true treasure.
Buy now at Amazon!
More book tips
At Work
Bridges
Buildings
Castles
Children
City Views
Customs
Disasters
Hotels
New Year
People
Prostitution
Railways
Religious
Rural
Scenic Views
Shops
Temples & Shrines
Tokaido
Transport
Weddings
Women
Arima
Beppu
Enoshima
Hakone
Himeji
Hiroshima
Inside
Kinosaki
Kobe
Kyoto
Miyajima
Mount Fuji
Nagasaki
Nara
Nikko
Okayama
Osaka
Outside
Studio
Tokaido
Tokyo
Utsunomiya
Yokohama
Hanaya Kanbei
Julian Cochrane
Kazumasa Ogawa
Kimbei Kusakabe
Kozaburo Tamamura
Kuichi Uchida
Nobukuni Enami
Reiji Esaki
Studio Chidori
T.G. Ariga
Teijiro Takagi
Unknown
Y. Isawa
Yusa Studio
iKjeld.com
Dive deeper into Japan with Japan correspondent Kjeld Duits
Japan Links
A Japan Correspondent's personal bookmarks; the net's best sites about Japan and Japanese culture
Japan Photo Stock
License vintage and current photos of Japan and the Japanese
JapaneseStreets
Magazine on Japanese street fashion and street culture
JapaneseStreets Friends
Asia's largest friend-finder. Make friends, penpals, or find your ideal match.
Postcards of Japan
A resource for the collector of vintage Japanese postcards
Buildings
|
# 80122-0015 Kyoto 1934 • Furniture Store Showa • Buildings • Shops Unknown • Glass Slide • New York State Education Department |
|
# 70604-0017 Tokyo 1880s • Shintomiza Theater Meiji • Buildings • City Views Unknown • Albumen Print • Unknown |
|
# 80421-0009 Osaka 1870s-1880s • View from Enokojima Meiji • Buildings • City Views Unknown • Albumen Print • Unknown |
|
# 80717-0016 Osaka 1900s • Osaka Station Meiji • Buildings • Railways Unknown • Glass Slide • Unknown |
|
# 70216-0058 Osaka 1920s • Osaka City Hall Taisho • Buildings • City Views Unknown • Postcard • Unknown |
|
# 80122-0012 Kyoto 1934 • City Hall Showa • Buildings • City Views Unknown • Glass Slide • New York State Education Department |
|
# 70606-0003 Yokohama 1890s • Nectarine No. 9 Brothel Meiji • Buildings • Prostitution Kimbei Kusakabe • Albumen Print • Kimbei Kusakabe |
|
# 80122-0014 Nara 1934 • Rural Houses Showa • Buildings • Rural Unknown • Glass Slide • New York State Education Department |
|
# 80121-0003 Tokyo 1924 • Large Private Garden Taisho • Buildings • Customs Unknown • Glass Slide • New York State Education Department |
|
# 80121-0001 1924 • Entrance of a House Taisho • Buildings • Women Unknown • Glass Slide • New York State Education Department |
|
# 70602-0014 Kyoto 1880s • Kiyomizudera Meiji • Buildings • Temples & Shrines Reiji Esaki • Albumen Print • Reiji Esaki |
|
# 70208-0016 Tokyo 1890s • Yoshiwara Brothel Meiji • Buildings • Prostitution Unknown • Albumen Print • Unknown |
|
# 70124-0019 Kobe 1910s • Oriental Hotel Taisho • Buildings • Hotels Unknown • Postcard • Unknown |
|
# 70222-0026 Nagasaki 1900s • Buildings on the Bund Meiji • Buildings • City Views Unknown • Postcard • Ueda |
OldPhotosJapan.com — a photo blog about old Japan that reads like a book and works like an archive. All the photographs are from the Kjeld Duits Collection and available for licensing. Contact us when you need historical, or current, photos of Japan for your newspaper article, book, documentary, interior design, room decoration, package design, advertising or other project.
Looks eerily like a side street in modern Kyoto…
@tokyo2la: There are kanji above the “Kawagoe Tansu” sign. The ones in the windows. They …
But doesn’t the sign say “Kawagoe Tansu”?
@Robert: I checked Terry Bennett’s Collectors’ Data Guide and it has no listing for J …
I purchased an old handcolored photograph that is labeled “J 18, Yumoto, Nikko”. It …