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Japan (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 273 Collections and/or Records:

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[Unidentified landscape], 1870 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/180
Scope and Contents

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

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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[Unidentified seascape], 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/8
Scope and Contents

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

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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Uyeno, Tokio [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/58
Scope and Contents

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.

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

Views in Australia, Egypt, Aden, Asia and other places chiefly circa 1908-1915

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)
Scope and Contents The collection was originally housed in seven boxes, four of which were specially made with individual slots for slides. These were numbered 3, 6, 10 and 11 and the remaining boxes were unnumbered. Presumably these formed part of a larger collection, but nothing is known of the original owner or the fate of any other boxes. For conservation reasons, the collection has since been re-boxed. The captions given are normally those which appear on the slides themselves. They have been used as...
Dates: 1908 - 1915
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

Views of Hong Kong, China and Japan

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

A collection of loose albumen prints. These topographical views cover Hong Kong, the Chinese Treaty ports (a good selection of material from Shanghai) and Japan. Many of the Japanese prints are hand-coloured. It appears in the Supplement to the Library Catalogue published in 1901.

Dates: 1880 - 1900
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

Views of Japan

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

An album containing hand-coloured albumen prints. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. Titles composed by the cataloguer have been enclosed in square brackets.

Dates: 1870 - 1889
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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Visiting ceremonials [hand coloured], 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/141
Scope and Contents

264 x 204 mm. Studio portrait of three kneeling girls. 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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Voluntary hari-kiri, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/12
Scope and Contents

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.

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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[Waterfall], 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/7
Scope and Contents

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

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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Weaving silk, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/20
Scope and Contents

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

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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Wind costume, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/40
Scope and Contents

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.

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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Wisteria at Kameido, Tokio [hand coloured], 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/140
Scope and Contents

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.

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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Wreckage in Gifu river valley after 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/38
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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Wreckage of fishing village near Tokyo after 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/42
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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Wreckage of Tokyo railway station and other buildings caused by 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/32
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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Wreckage of Tokyo railway station and other buildings caused by 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/33
Scope and Contents

Colour.

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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Wrestlers, 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/144
Scope and Contents

241 x 187 mm. Showing two sumo wrestlers in the ring, with spectators on all sides. 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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Yebisu Bashi Osaka, 1870 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/99
Scope and Contents

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.

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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Yokohama, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/55
Scope and Contents

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

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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Yokohama Bay from Bluff [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/64
Scope and Contents

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

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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Yomeimon (front), Iyeyasu [Nikko] [hand coloured], 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/151
Scope and Contents

243 x 192 mm. View of the highly painted doorway and surround. 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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Yoshihama, road from Atami, 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/178
Scope and Contents

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.

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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[Young Warrior], 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/41
Scope and Contents

203 x 264 mm. Full length studio portrait of a warrior with his weapon; a long curved blade attached to a length of bamboo.

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).