Yokohama 1910s
Yokohama Pier
People in Japanese and Western style dress walk on the pier in Yokohama Harbor. A steamship can be seen in the back, spewing black smoke from its smokestack.
Yokohama 1910s
Tokyo 1890s
Streetcar in Ueno
This photograph displays Tokyo’s most popular transportation modes during the Meiji Period (1868-1912), horse drawn streetcars and jinrikisha (rickshaws).
Tokyo 1890s
Geisha Houses, Shinbashi
A seemingly endless street full of geisha houses in Tokyo’s most elite geisha district of the Meiji Period, Shinbashi.
Kyoto 1934
Furniture Store
A furniture store in Kyoto in May 1934. Notice the tricycles and prams. Both are articles that you would not expect at a furniture store.
Tokyo, 1880s
Ginza and Kyobashi
Another view from Ginza 4-chome looking towards Kyobashi. The high elevation affords a clear view over Tokyo.
Tokyo 1872
Anjincho in Nihonbashi
Rackety wooden houses with shingled roofs in Tokyo’s Anjincho (安針町) in the Nihonbashi district.