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80115-0028 - Japanese New Year Celebrations

Kobe, 1906
New Year Celebrations 4

Artist	Teijiro Takagi
Publisher	Teijiro Takagi
Medium	Collotype Print
Period	Meiji
Location	Kobe
Image No.	80115-0028
Purchase	Digital File
Author	Kjeld Duits

A booth selling items for the New Year celebrations.

This image is part of The New Year in Japan, a book published by Kobe-based photographer Kozaburo Tamamura in 1906. Original text¹:

At other fairs, articles are arranged in booths, in Temple grounds, and here you may obtain, practically, anything, you require, and many, many people buy what they do not really need, but the attraction is cheapness, and that is a strong magnet with humanity in general!

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Notes

¹ Tamamura, Kozaburo (1906). The New Year in Japan. Tamamura Shashinkan.

Published January 1, 2009
Updated December 29, 2022 9:33 AM

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Duits, Kjeld (December 29, 2022). Kobe, 1906: New Year Celebrations 4, OLD PHOTOS of JAPAN. Retrieved on July 27, 2026 (GMT) from https://www.oldphotosjapan.com/photos/679/new-year-celebrations-4

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