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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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Buildings
Castles
Children
City Views
Customs
Disasters
Hotels
New Year
People
Prostitution
Railways
Religious
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Scenic Views
Shops
Temples & Shrines
Tokaido
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Weddings
Women
Arima
Beppu
Enoshima
Hakone
Himeji
Hiroshima
Inside
Kinosaki
Kobe
Kyoto
Miyajima
Mount Fuji
Nagasaki
Nara
Nikko
Okayama
Osaka
Outside
Studio
Tokaido
Tokyo
Utsunomiya
Yokohama
Hanaya Kanbei
Julian Cochrane
Kazumasa Ogawa
Kimbei Kusakabe
Kozaburo Tamamura
Kuichi Uchida
Nobukuni Enami
Reiji Esaki
Studio Chidori
T.G. Ariga
Teijiro Takagi
Unknown
Y. Isawa
Yusa Studio
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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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# 80717-0021 Tokyo, 1880s • Ginza and Kyobashi Meiji • City Views Unknown • Glass Slide • Unknown |
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# 80122-0013 Kobe 1930 • The Bund Showa • City Views Unknown • Glass Slide • New York State Education Department |
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# 70314-0020 1904 • Feeding Silk Worms Meiji • At Work • Women Julian Cochrane • Glass Slide • Keystone View Company |
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# 80717-0015 1900s • Ainu Family Meiji • Ainu • Children Unknown • Glass Slide • Unknown |
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# 80717-0016 Osaka 1900s • Osaka Station Meiji • Buildings • Railways Unknown • Glass Slide • Unknown |
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# 71009-0006 1900s • Ainu Fishermen Meiji • Ainu • At Work Unknown • Glass Slide • H.C. White |
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# 80122-0004 Kobe 1930 • Warehouses in Port Showa • City Views • Transport Unknown • Glass Slide • New York State Education Department |
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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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# 80122-0014 Nara 1934 • Rural Houses Showa • Buildings • Rural Unknown • Glass Slide • New York State Education Department |
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# 80122-0010 Yokohama 1930 • Bentendori Showa • City Views • Shops Unknown • Glass Slide • New York State Education Department |
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# 80122-0008 1930 • Washing Clothes Showa • At Work • People Unknown • Glass Slide • New York State Education Department |
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# 80122-0006 Tokyo 1934 • Traffic in Nihonbashi Showa • City Views • Transport Unknown • Glass Slide • New York State Education Department |
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# 80121-0011 Tokyo 1934 • Asakusa Nakamise Showa • Shops • Temples & Shrines Unknown • Glass Slide • New York State Education Department |
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