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Outside 1930s
How Japan Kept the Fire Burning

Gifu 1936
The Art of the Japanese New Year Card

Inside 1944
Shinjuku’s Lost Paradise (7)

Tokyo 1920s
Shinjuku’s Lost Paradise (6)

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

Tokyo 1890s
Shinjuku’s Lost Paradise (2)

Kobe 1900s
Human Conveyor Belt (4)

Nagasaki 1910s
Human Conveyor Belt (3)

Moji 1890s
Human Conveyor Belt (2)

Nagasaki 1910s
Human Conveyor Belt (1)

Tokyo 1923
Drowning in a Sea of Fire

Yokohama 1923
A Story of Survival

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Empire of Color (3)

How 19th century Japanese artists mastered the art of hand colored photography. PART 3: How colorists worked.

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Smoking the Kiseru

Japanese potter and former Living National Treasure Sakaida Kakiemon XIV on smoking the kiseru.

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Studio 1880s
The Way of the Kiseru

1890s
Selling Insect Musicians

1930s
Off to War

1910s
Headman, Hunter, Fox

1880s
Beauties of the Bath

1930s
How Radio Gymnastics Conquered Japan

Tokyo 1925
The Birth of Radio

Kobe 1871
Motomachi 3-Chōme

1890s
The Secret Powers of the Japanese Doll

1900s
How do you Wash a Kimono?