A woman in kimono with traditional Japanese hairstyle poses in a studio.
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Old Photos of Japan aims to be your personal museum for Japan's visual heritage and to bring the experiences of everyday life in old Japan to you.
To enhance our understanding of Japanese culture and society I track down, acquire, archive, and research images of everyday life, and give them context.
I share what I have found for free on this site, without ads or selling your data.
Your support helps me to continue doing so, and ensures that this exceptional visual heritage will not be lost and forgotten.
Thank you,
Kjeld Duits
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Duits, Kjeld (). 1890s: Woman in Kimono, OLD PHOTOS of JAPAN. Retrieved on January 30, 2026 (GMT) from https://www.oldphotosjapan.com/photos/212/woman-in-kimono
Peter
interesting website, bookmarked for later!
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Kjeld Duits (Author)
Thanks, Peter. I just visited your shop. Really interesting, too!
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Peter
thanks Kjeld, are you based in Japan? I think i caught something about kirai.net about somebody he knew doing something similiar to this.
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Kjeld Duits (Author)
That could be me. There are probably not too many other people doing this, if any. I am actually based between Osaka and Kobe, but travel all over Japan.
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Peter
I just noticed your partner sites, you have some very solid sites. I look forward to reading more from you.
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Kjeld Duits (Author)
Thanks for the nice words, Peter. The past two years or so I have been in the process of either redoing my sites or starting up new ones. Old Photos of Japan started last month. Japan Photo Stock started recently, too, but used to be part of iKjeld.com. JAPANESE STREETS got a complete make-over that was completed last August. Postcards of Japan is new, and way behind schedule to launch. I am now working on the make-overs for iKjeld.com and Japan Links, and also have at least two more sites waiting in the wings. It keeps me off the street. ;-)
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Peter
‘It keeps me off the street.’ Its good to hear! I’ve started building similiar sites, Japan related, ready for a future move back to Japan. So I’m glad to see that other people are having success with it.
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Kjeld Duits (Author)
Love to see the sites. Do you already know when you’ll be moving?
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Peter
travelfolio.co.uk , is one of the more complete sites along with Japanesey. I’d still like to improve the design of travelfolio, but I’m quite happy with the overall layout.
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Kjeld Duits (Author)
Travelfolio.co.uk is really nice as well. The blue links for RSS at the bottom are virtually impossible for me to read, so you may want to consider a different color.
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Kjeld Duits (Author)
This has gone a bit of topic…
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