Cherry blossom along the Tamagawa Jōsui at Koganei. The 43 kilometer aqueduct supplied much of Tokyo’s drinking water and played a major role in turning Jūnisō into a place of natural beauty.
Sheltering trees, romantic open teahouses—the idyllic Jūnisō Pond was for centuries a celebrated city escape.
This rare photo from 1871 shows Tokyo’s Nihonbashi Bridge made famous in countless woodblock prints. A year after Austrian photographer Michael Moser shot this scene, the bridge was torn down and rebuilt.
In July 1871 a strong typhoon devastated western Japan. It was one of the first strong typhoons that foreigners in the newly opened foreign settlements experienced and it shocked them tremendously.
A traveller observes the Kisogawa River near Agematsu Juku, the thirty-eighth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō, now located in Kiso, Nagano Prefecture.
A bridge on the Tōkaidō with Mount Fuji in the back. Bridges on the Tōkaidō were far more common than is generally thought.