In 1878, just 19 years after Japan opened it first ports to the world, and a mere ten years after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, an adventurous 47-year old woman from the UK set out to explore the interior of Japan. The country was virtually unknown to Westerners, and a woman traveling only with a guide seemed outrageous. Everybody advised her not to, but she went anyway and wrote this unique and vivid journal of what she saw and experienced.
MeijiShowa
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# 70314-0030 Yokohama 1900s Samurai Shokai Meiji Buildings Shops Unknown Postcard Ueda |
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# 70219-0003 Osaka, 1905 Yodoyabashi Bridge Meiji Bridges Buildings Unknown Postcard Ueda |
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# 70216-0062 Kobe 1910s Sannomiya Taisho City Views Shops Unknown Postcard Ueda |
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# 70222-0026 Nagasaki 1900s Buildings on the Bund Meiji Buildings City Views Unknown Postcard Ueda |
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# 70314-0026 Kobe 1910s Fukuhara Brothels Meiji City Views Prostitution Unknown Postcard Ueda |
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# 70330-0022 Kobe 1910s Steam Launches Meiji City Views Transport Unknown Postcard Ueda |
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# 70330-0021 Kobe 1900s View from Aioibashi Meiji Railways Transport Unknown Postcard Ueda |
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# 70130-0006 Tokyo 1910s Yoshiwara Prostitutes Taisho Prostitution Women Unknown Postcard Ueda |
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# 70124-0017 Tokyo 1910s Hattori Building, Ginza Taisho City Views Transport Unknown Postcard Ueda |
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# 70122-0012 Yokohama 1910s Yoshidamachi-dori Taisho City Views Shops Unknown Postcard Ueda |
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# 70111-0010 Yokohama 1910s Isezaki-cho 1-chome Taisho City Views Unknown Postcard Ueda |
@Jim Clinefelter Thanks, Jim. I love it when photographers leave their name card like that! Yamamoto’s studio …
The clue to who took this image is the kanji on the man’s haori, 寫山茂堂 …
高橋様 明治5年(1872年)、明治天皇の西国御巡幸の際、宮内省御用掛の写真師第一号として随行し、内田九一は長崎を訪れたので、日付を1872年に変更しました。
高橋様 「OLD PHOTOS OF JAPAN」のドゥイツです。ご案内誠にありがとうございます。 高橋様の情報を追加致しました。
この長崎の写真は明治6年に内田九一が撮影したものです。国際日本文化研究センター所蔵の内田写真館のアルバムYA033に他の九一の写真といっしょに入っています。