Two young men are relaxing in a fish shop. Fish has always been an important part of the Japanese diet and was sold both at shops and by fish peddlers (furiuri) who walked around carrying fish in tubs that hung from a carrying pole on their shoulder.
A view on the Shinbashi (also Shimbashi) bridge and Ginza avenue in Tokyo sometime between 1889 (Meiji 22) and 1899 (Meiji 32).
View on the San-mon main gate and a stone bridge at Chionin buddhist temple in the Higashiyama district in Kyoto, Japan.
A woman dressed in a kimono and facing a mirror has her hair done by a hairdresser.
This early 20th century postcard shows brothels in the Tobita Yukaku (prostitution district) of Osaka.