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Meiji

Taiwan Pavilion at the Tokyo Industrial Exhibition of 1907

Tokyo 1907
The Forgotten Horse Races of Ueno Park (3)

Shinobazu Pond at Tokyo's Ueno Park, 1890s

Tokyo 1880s
The Forgotten Horse Races of Ueno Park (2)

Horse race track at Shinobazu Pond in Ueno Park, Tokyo, ca. 1880s

Tokyo 1880s
The Forgotten Horse Races of Ueno Park (1)

Glass slide by Nobukuni Enami of Japanese silk cocoon traders weighing cocoons, ca. 1900s

Inside 1900s
The Quiet Power of Japanese Silk

Hand colored albumen print by Reiji Esaki of Japanese women transplanting rice seedlings, ca. 1890s

Outside 1890s
Japan's Green Revolution (2)

Dai Nippon Artificial Fertilizer Company in Osaka, 1913

Osaka 1913
Japan's Green Revolution (1)

Japanese siege gun fires during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05

China 1904
War, Power and Steel

Two Western men are drinking Japanese tea while sitting close to hibachi, 1890s

Inside 1896
Forgotten Shapes of Warmth

Two Japanese women sitting next to a hibachi brazier, 1890s

Studio 1890s
Japan's Mistresses of Fire

Jūnisō Pond in Shinjuku, Tokyo in 1905

Tokyo 1905/1906
Shinjuku’s Lost Paradise (5)

Painting by Robert William Arthur Rouse of a teahouse at Jūnisō Pond around the 1890s

Tokyo 1890s
Shinjuku’s Lost Paradise (4)

Cherry blossom along the Tamagawa Jōsui in Koganei, ca. 1890s

Tokyo 1890s
Shinjuku’s Lost Paradise (2)

Albumen print by Michael Moser of the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo, published in The Far East Magazine in 1871

Tokyo 1871
Birth of a Nation

Albumen print by Felice Beato of the Bund in Kobe after the typhoon of July 1871

Kobe 1871
Battling Japan's Typhoons

Albumen print by Kimbei Kusakabe of the Nakasendo Highway, 1880s

Nagano 1880s
Nakasendō Highway

Albumen print of the Kawaibashi Bridge on the Tokaido, ca. 1880s

Shizuoka 1880s
Bridge on the Tōkaidō

Photo by Felice Beato of the Tokaido ferry across the Rokugogawa River at Kawasaki, 1870s

Kawasaki 1870s
Crossing Japan's 'Raging Rivers'

Illustrations of a Japanese irori (firepit) by American scholar Edward S. Morse, 1885

Inside 1880s
Rediscovering Japan's Irori

A Japanese farmer’s family around the irori

Inside 1900s
Staying Warm in (C)Old Japan

Coal barges, boats with harbor workers, and a steam launch at Kobe Harbor, ca. 1900s

Kobe 1900s
Human Conveyor Belt (4)

apanese women coaling a US cruiser in Nagasaki, 1910’s

Nagasaki 1910s
Human Conveyor Belt (3)

Mounds of coal at Moji Harbor, 1890s

Moji 1890s
Human Conveyor Belt (2)

100908-0002 - Loading Coal in Nagasaki, 1910s

Nagasaki 1910s
Human Conveyor Belt (1)

A Japanese woman prepares tea during a tea ceremony

Kobe 1907
"The 'Ceremonial Tea' Observance in Japan"

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