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206 x 267 mm. Close up view of a temple carving, location unidentified, probably Nikko.

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268 x 211 mm. View from wooded hillside looking down on a small settlement of houses beside a river. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of albums, containing captioned black and white photographs, taken by one, or more, people travelling in the same group. The albums form a photographic account of a six-month long touring holiday.Of the albums, the first ten are all of the same style and manufacture and each has an embossed title on the front. They follow the journey chronologically. The remaining two contain a smaller selection of images from the same journey, again in chronological order. They are...

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264 x 207 mm. View looking towards an open-sided wooden pavilion on a stone base, with richly carved details on lintels, brackets and base. The building is unidentified and appears to be a subsidiary wing of a larger structure.

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266 x 208 mm. View looking towards a Japanese house set among trees on a cliff top overlooking the sea.

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192 x 223 mm. View looking across a river towards the houses of a village. Location unidentified, possibly Omiya village, seen in Y302A/181.

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260 x 206 mm. View looking across a bay with a rocky headland in the foreground.

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270 x 207 mm. View looking along an avenue lined with carved stone pedestals, which probably leads to the site of the former Shogun temple which was destroyed by fire in 1868.

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264 x 204 mm. Studio portrait of three kneeling girls. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

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265 x 207 mm Studio photograph showing a young man seated on the floor in the act of disembowelling himself. The print is only lightly coloured, with the blood inexpertly and garishly applied.

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207 x 265 mm. View of an unidentified waterfall set amongst woodland, with a Japanese figure standing in the foreground.

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263 x 205 mm. Studio photograph showing two women at work at a loom.

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175 x 231 mm. Full length studio portrait of a woman with an umbrella supposedly fighting her way against a storm. The illusion of wind and rain is created by scratches on the negatives (rain) and wires to hold her clothes in disarray.

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264 x 203 mm. View looking along an ornamental pool or canal towards a wooden bow shaped bridge, with wisteria hanging in clumps from overhead trellises in the foreground. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

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

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

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

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Colour.

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241 x 187 mm. Showing two sumo wrestlers in the ring, with spectators on all sides. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

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269 x 206 mm. View looking across a bridge over one of the canals of Osaka, with a commercial street on the farther side. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

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253 x 201 mm. General view, looking over the rooftops (probably from the Bluff) towards shipping at anchor in the harbour.

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269 x 210 mm. View looking over warehouses and other waterfront buildings towards the harbour.

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243 x 192 mm. View of the highly painted doorway and surround. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

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241 x 191 mm. View looking along the Atami Road, with Sagami Bay at the left and the town of Yoshima on its shore in the background. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.