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Japan (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 273 Collections and/or Records:

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Buddhist priests [hand coloured], 1870 - 1900

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/156
Scope and Contents

188 x 204 mm. Full length studio portrait of two Buddhist priests in their robes. Photographer unknown.

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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Canal, Yokohama, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/46
Scope and Contents

265 x 206 mm. View looking along the canal towards the town in the distance, with a small settlement of houses 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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Candle Rock, Haruna, near Ikao [Ikaho], 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/170
Scope and Contents

194 x 242 mm. View of the conical Candle Rock, with a small open sided pavilion 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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[Carved figures over temple gate], 1870 - 1889

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/18
Scope and Contents

265 x 205 mm. Showing a group of three carved figures above the lintel of the entrance of the unidentified temple seen in Y3039A/19.

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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Central Theological College, Ikebukuru, Tokyo, 1900 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/49
Scope and Contents

Colour.

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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Cherry blossom at Uyeno Park, Tokyo [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/57
Scope and Contents

270 x 208 mm. View looking along an avenue lined with cherry trees in the park.

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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Cherry blossom (spring) [hand coloured], 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/138
Scope and Contents

241 x 191 mm. View looking down a road lined with small houses and cherry trees in blossom. 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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Cherry blossoms, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302K/63
Scope and Contents

67 x 108 mm.

Dates: 1949
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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Chiusenji Lake & Nantai San, Nikko, 1870 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/161
Scope and Contents

270 x 208 mm. View from the lakeside, with the torii to the Shinto shrine on the shore at the right. Photographer unknown.

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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Chiusenji Lake, Nikko, 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/162
Scope and Contents

266 x 205 mm. View looking along the shore of the lake with a boat 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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Chrchyard [sic] Kurodani, Kioto., 1870 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/107
Scope and Contents

267 x 109 mm. View looking along a paved pathway lined on either side with shrines and gravestones.

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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Church Missionary Society photograph collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS
Scope and Contents The Church Missionary Society photograph collection consists of photographic prints, glass and film negatives, and lantern slides. The prints in CMS 1-17 were selected from the CMS’s Photo Bureau, the majority being mounted on sheets of paper annotated with captions. Many photographs would have been taken to illustrate articles in the society’s periodicals including ‘Church Missionary Gleaner’, ‘Church Missionary Intelligencer’ and their successors. Little is known of the...
Dates: 1881 - 1973
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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City and Harbour of Yokohama [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/63
Scope and Contents

269 x 207 mm. General view looking over rooftops towards shipping moored in 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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C.M.S. Children of the Yonago kindergarten, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 19/39
Scope and Contents From the File:

A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work, many dated 1937.

Dates: 1930 - 1939
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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Coolie [i.e. indentured labourer] winter dress, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/5
Scope and Contents

175 x 233 mm. Full length studio portrait of a labourer dressed in a coat made of grasses, and with false snow on his shoulders and on the ground.

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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Courtyard of a farm, 1954, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/7/1
Scope and Contents

157 x 111 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative. Location unidentified.

Dates: 1954
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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Cracks in country road caused by 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/39
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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Cross displayed in an exhibition of modern art in a Tokyo park, 1954, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/7/2
Scope and Contents

111 x 155 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.

Dates: 1954
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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Dai-Butsu - Great Buddha, Nara, 1870 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/104
Scope and Contents

208 x 224 mm. Front view of the eighth-century 53 feet high image of Buddha in the Temple of Todai-Ji at Nara, 18 miles east of 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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Daidutsu [sic for Daibutsu] Bronze Image, Kamakura, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/54
Scope and Contents

265 x 206 mm. View of the 42 ft high bronze statue of the Buddha cast in 1252 AD. The holy town of Kamakura is situated on the north east shore of Sagami Bay.

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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Diary, 1926-01-01 - 1926-12-31

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/2/5
Scope and Contents

This diary records Bell's social life, interests, personal affairs and travels. It describes the latter part of his extensive tour of the Far East during 1925-26 in greater detail than RCMS 36/2/4 (509 pages).

Dates: 1926-01-01 - 1926-12-31
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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Dr M. Suwa in the consulting room, Ikebukuru Dispensary (opened 1925), 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/50
Scope and Contents

Colour slide.

Dates: 1925
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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Dr. Toyohito Kagawa (1880?-1960), Japanese Christian social reformer, 1900 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/53
Scope and Contents

In 1930 he founded the Kingdom of God movement.

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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Dr. Toyohito Kagawa (1880?-1960), Japanese Christian social reformer, 1900 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/54
Scope and Contents

In 1930 he founded the Kingdom of God movement.

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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Early naval subjects, c 1920-47

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WDVS 2/1
Scope and Contents Lectures and notes on subjects including: the duties, ships and operations of the Navy; India, c 1920; naval history; torpedo development (including letters and notes from Bernard Haigh [Professor of Applied Mechanics, Royal Naval College, Greenwich] and Engineer-Captain Francis Haigh [Superintendent, Royal Naval Torpedo Factory, Greenock],1927); Davis's reflections on China and Japan, 1934-35; the situation in Germany, Oct-Dec 1933.Also includes a letter and poems from Davis's...
Dates: c 1920-47
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.