1920s
Grist Mill
Three women and four children stand in front of a large water powered grist mill with a thatched roof.
Three women and four children stand in front of a large water powered grist mill with a thatched roof.
Hakone Lake, also known as Lake Ashi (芦ノ湖, Ashinoko), in the Hakone area of Kanagawa Prefecture as it looked in 1932 (Showa 7).
A very large private garden in Tokyo, featuring a pond, a stone bridge and an exotic looking building.
This photo, taken in Tokyo in May 1934, shows a young woman wearing an obi (the beautifully decorated sash used to tie the kimono) with a design that must have been quite modern at the time.
Two women in kimono stand at the entrance, called genkan (玄関), of a house of what appears to be a well-to-do family.
A steam locomotive pulls passenger cars on elevated railway tracks in Kobe.