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Over 500 beautiful photographs and postcards, mostly of between 1900 and 1940, take you back to Japan’s now-extinct licensed pleasure districts. You will keep opening up this book again and again. A beauty!
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New Year
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Women
Arima
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Inside
Kinosaki
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Outside
Studio
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Tokyo
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Hanaya Kanbei
Julian Cochrane
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Kimbei Kusakabe
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Nobukuni Enami
Reiji Esaki
Studio Chidori
T.G. Ariga
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Unknown
Unkown
Y. Isawa
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Buildings
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# 80122-0015 Kyoto 1934 • Furniture Store Showa • Buildings • Shops Unknown • Glass Slide • New York State Education Department |
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# 70604-0017 Tokyo 1880s • Shintomiza Theater Meiji • Buildings • City Views Unknown • Albumen Print • Unknown |
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# 80421-0009 Osaka 1870s-1880s • View from Enokojima Meiji • Buildings • City Views Unknown • Albumen Print • Unknown |
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# 80717-0016 Osaka 1900s • Osaka Station Meiji • Buildings • Railways Unknown • Glass Slide • Unknown |
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# 70216-0058 Osaka 1920s • Osaka City Hall Taisho • Buildings • City Views Unknown • Postcard • Unknown |
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# 80122-0012 Kyoto 1934 • City Hall Showa • Buildings • City Views Unknown • Glass Slide • New York State Education Department |
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# 70606-0003 Yokohama 1890s • Nectarine No. 9 Brothel Meiji • Buildings • Prostitution Kimbei Kusakabe • Albumen Print • Kimbei Kusakabe |
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# 80122-0014 Nara 1934 • Rural Houses Showa • Buildings • Rural Unknown • Glass Slide • New York State Education Department |
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# 80121-0003 Tokyo 1924 • Large Private Garden Taisho • Buildings • Customs Unknown • Glass Slide • New York State Education Department |
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# 80121-0001 1924 • Entrance of a House Taisho • Buildings • Women Unknown • Glass Slide • New York State Education Department |
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# 70602-0014 Kyoto 1880s • Kiyomizudera Meiji • Buildings • Temples & Shrines Reiji Esaki • Albumen Print • Reiji Esaki |
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# 70208-0016 Tokyo 1890s • Yoshiwara Brothel Meiji • Buildings • Prostitution Unknown • Albumen Print • Unknown |
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# 70124-0019 Kobe 1910s • Oriental Hotel Taisho • Buildings • Hotels Unknown • Postcard • Unknown |
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# 70222-0026 Nagasaki 1900s • Buildings on the Bund Meiji • Buildings • City Views Unknown • Postcard • Ueda |
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