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Former main gate of a feudal estate in Edo, ca. 1890s

Tokyo 1890s
Edo: A Metropolis of Hostages

A woman looks out at Shinobazu Pond's lotus flowers from a restaurant in Tokyo's Ueno district, 1920s

Tokyo 1920s
Ueno before the Quake

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

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

The Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima in July, 1947

Hiroshima
Every Day I Thought I Would Die Tomorrow

Japanese charcoal dealer, 1930s

Outside 1930s
How Japan Kept the Fire Burning

Advertising postcard for the Great Exhibition of Rapid Japanese Progress in Gifu in 1936

Gifu 1936
The Art of the Japanese New Year Card

Tank production at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in 1944

Inside 1944
Shinjuku’s Lost Paradise (7)

Streetcars and cars on Shinjuku Ō-Dōri in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, 1920s

Tokyo 1920s
Shinjuku’s Lost Paradise (6)

Jūnisō Pond in Shinjuku, Tokyo in 1905

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

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

Tokyo 1890s
Shinjuku’s Lost Paradise (2)

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)

The ruins of Ryounkaku (凌雲閣) at Asakusa Park in Tokyo, 1923

Tokyo 1923
Drowning in a Sea of Fire

The ruins of Yokohama after the Great Kanto Earthquake of September 1, 1923

Yokohama 1923
A Story of Survival

Spotlight
Empire of Color (3)

Spotlight
Smoking the Kiseru

Japanese Farmer with pipe, wearing a straw raincoat and conical hat

Studio 1880s
The Way of the Kiseru

170605-0032 - Maiko with Insect Vendor, 1890s

1890s
Selling Insect Musicians

130213-0004 - Sending Family Members Off to War, WWII Japan

1930s
Off to War

70518-0018 - Two Japanese Women Playing the Tōhachiken Game

1910s
Headman, Hunter, Fox

80901-0009 - Bathing Japanese Women, 1880s

1880s
Beauties of the Bath

160905-0031 - Physical Exercise at School, 1930s

1930s
How Radio Gymnastics Conquered Japan

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