Over 500 beautiful photographs and postcards, mostly of between 1900 and 1940, take you back to Japan’s now-extinct licensed pleasure districts. You will keep opening up this book again and again. A beauty!
MeijiShowa
License all the photos on this site at our boutique photo agency for vintage photographs, illustrations and maps of Japan between the 1860s and 1930s (Meiji, Taisho, early Showa)
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# 70130-0013 Yokohama 1900s Yokohama Station Meiji Buildings Railways Unknown Postcard Unknown |
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# 71203-0004 Kobe 1910s Hyogo Kencho Meiji Buildings City Views Unknown Postcard Sakaeya Shoten |
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# 70116-0008 Tokyo 1920s Hanayashiki, Asakusa Park Taisho, Showa City Views Buildings Unknown Postcard Unknown |
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# 70621-0011 Kyoto 1890s San-mon Gate at Chionin Meiji Buildings Temples & Shrines Unknown Albumen Print Unknown |
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# 70126-0010 Kyoto 1926 Kamo River Taisho City Views Buildings Unknown Postcard Tahaka&Co |
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# 70111-0007 Tokyo 1920s Tokyo Station Taisho Railways Buildings Unknown Postcard Taisho Hato |
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# 70319-0005 Osaka 1890s Shitennoji Temple Meiji Temples & Shrines Buildings Kimbei Kusakabe Albumen Print Kimbei Kusakabe |
@Kim The white building is the Ishihara Tokeiten (石原時計店). This was a well-known retailer of watches …
What is the tall building?
@Jim Clinefelter Thanks, Jim. I love it when photographers leave their name card like that! Yamamoto’s studio …
The clue to who took this image is the kanji on the man’s haori, 寫山茂堂 …
高橋様 明治5年(1872年)、明治天皇の西国御巡幸の際、宮内省御用掛の写真師第一号として随行し、内田九一は長崎を訪れたので、日付を1872年に変更しました。