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Japan (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 271 Collections and/or Records:

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On the journey, 1870 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/133
Scope and Contents

150 x 150 mm (circular print, vignetted). Studio portrait of a man and woman setting out on a journey with two children.

Dates: 1870 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Onomichi], 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/50
Scope and Contents

261 x 206 mm. View looking down from a hillside onto a town, with a deep bay beyond, similar to Y3039A/48 and probably showing Onomichi.

Dates: 1870 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Onomichi Inland Sea [hand coloured], 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/96
Scope and Contents

230 x 201 mm. Duplicate of Y3039A/48

Dates: 1870 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Onomichi Island Sea, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/48
Scope and Contents

246 x 205 mm. View from a neighbouring hillside looking down on the town of Onomichi, with the Hiuchi Sea beyond. The town is situated 43 miles east of Hiroshima.

Dates: 1870 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Osaka [1890s] [Hand coloured], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/76
Scope and Contents

248 x 192 mm. View looking along the Yodo River towards the town.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Otometoge to Fujiyama [hand coloured], 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/130
Scope and Contents

259 x 204 mm. View looking across a plain towards Mount Fuji, with two travellers posed in the foreground. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Dates: 1870 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Pagoda at Osaka [hand coloured], 1870 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/98
Scope and Contents

188 x 219 mm. View showing a five storied pagoda in a courtyard in Osaka.

Dates: 1870 - 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Pantomime uniform, Nikko, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/21
Scope and Contents

265 x 207 mm. Showing four men posed on a stage in warrior costume.

Dates: 1870 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Pappenberg Rock, Nagasaki, 1870 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/97
Scope and Contents

241 x 191 mm. View from a hillside looking down onto a river, with the island of Pappenberg (faded in this print) in the distance. Pappenberg is associated with the stamping out of Christianity in the Japanese empire during the seventeenth century.

Dates: 1870 - 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Part of caption illegible] Nagasaki [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/71
Scope and Contents

269 x 208 mm. View from a hillside looking towards the Pappenberg Rock, similar to Y302A/69.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Photographs of North Africa and Asia

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A
Scope and Contents

A large album of albumen prints. The prints are of various sizes and by various photographers. The compiler of the album is not known. Captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.

Dates: 1860 - 1920
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Photographs of Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Pacific Islands, the United States and Africa

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302K
Dates: 1949 - 1953
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Pilgrims to Fuji, 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/157
Scope and Contents

242 x 186 mm. Studio portrait of pilgrims posed against a backdrop of trees. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Dates: 1870 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Playing Koto, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/31
Scope and Contents

264 x 208 mm. Studio portrait of a Japanese girl playing the Koto, a thirteen stringed instrument played with both hands. The sounding board is a long length of wood laid horizontally on the ground, each string having its own individual bridge for tuning.

Dates: 1870 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Playing: Samisen, Tsudzumi & Taiko, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/30
Scope and Contents

254 x 208 mm. Showing three Japanese girls playing musical instruments. The studio props are the same as those seen in Y3039A/28.

Dates: 1870 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Playing with music [sic] [hand coloured], 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/165
Scope and Contents

260 x 203 mm. Studio portrait of four Japanese girls playing musical instruments. The girl at the left is playing the Koto (see Y3030A/31). Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Dates: 1870 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Poole Memorial School before destruction by 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/37
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.

Dates: 1923
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Priest], 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/27
Scope and Contents

194 x 263 mm. Full length studio portrait showing a robed figure on his knees and holding up a tray containing two bottles.

Dates: 1870 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Procession at consecration of Japanese Bishops, Tokyo, 1900 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/48
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.

Dates: 1900 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Railway station, Yokohama, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/60
Scope and Contents

265 x 208 mm. View looking across a bridge towards the railway station, situated in the northern section of the city at the intersection of two canals.

Dates: 1870 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Rain coats, 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/163
Scope and Contents

194 x 239 mm. Studio portrait of three figures dressed in rain coats made from grass. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Dates: 1870 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Rapids], 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/17
Scope and Contents

265 x 208 mm. View looking up a series of rapids on an unidentified river, with woodland on either bank.

Dates: 1870 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Rapids near Kioto [hand coloured], 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/113
Scope and Contents

242 x 191 mm. View looking up the rapids, with a flat-bottomed boat on the river in the foreground. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Dates: 1870 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Refugees fleeing from Yokohama during 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/31
Scope and Contents

Colour slide.

Dates: 1923
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Rev. Heber J. Hamilton of Canadian CMS distributing tracts at Ichinomiya, 1900 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/26
Scope and Contents

In 1912 Hamilton became the first Bishop of the Diocese of mid-Japan



Dates: 1900 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).