Skip to main content

Japan (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 271 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

Main Street, Yokohama [1890s] [Hand coloured], 1890 - 1899

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/66
Scope and Contents

248 x 192 mm General view along the tree lined street.

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).
 Item

Maples (Autumn), 1870 - 1912

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/146
Scope and Contents

242 x 194 mm. Duplicate in monochrome of Y302A/115. 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).
 Item

Maples (Autumn) [hand coloured], 1870 - 1920

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/115
Scope and Contents

237 x 189 mm. View showing a river running through a maple wood, with a small wooden bridge in the foreground. 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).
 Item

Members of the Kingdom of God Movement, 1930

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/47
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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

Dates: 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).
 File

Memoir: Mark Elliott, 2021

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 207
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2021
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
 Item

Men, women and soldiers carrying children during 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/30
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).
 Item

Minatogawa, Kobe, 1870 - 1889

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/49
Scope and Contents

265 x 207 mm. View looking along the Minatogawa River which separates the town of Kobe and Hyogo, with the stone bridge in the background.

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).
 Item

Mississippi Bay, 1870 - 1912

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/179
Scope and Contents

242 x 194 mm. View looking along the Yokohama road towards Mississippi Bay. Similar view to Y3030A/62. 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).
 Item

[Mississippi Bay from surrounding hills], 1870 - 1889

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/37
Scope and Contents

262 x 205 mm. View from a hill looking back along a road towards the coast, with a settlement of houses on the bay below. A Japanese tea house stands beside the road in the right foreground. See also Y3039A/62.

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).
 Item

Mississippi Bay, Yokohama, 1870 - 1889

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/62
Scope and Contents

262 x 205 mm. View from a hillside road looking down onto Mississippi Bay near Yokohama.

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).
 Item

Mississippi Bay, Yokohama [1890s] [Hand Coloured], 1890 - 1899

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/65
Scope and Contents

248 x 192 mm. View overlooking Mississippi Bay near Yokohama, with a man pulling a rickshaw on the road in the foreground.

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).
 Item

Miyanoshita, from Dogashima, 1870 - 1912

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/127
Scope and Contents

261 x 209 mm. View looking towards the houses of Miyanoshita, perched on the wooded hillsides of the Hakone Mountains. 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).
 Item

Moat at Tokyo [1890s], 1890 - 1899

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/61
Scope and Contents

269 x 210 mm. General view looking along the moat, with a single arched stone bridge crossing it in the background.

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).
 Item

Moat at Tokyo [1890s], 1890 - 1899

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/62
Scope and Contents

270 x 209 mm. Duplicate of Y3077C/61.

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).
 Item

Moat at Tokyo [1890s] [Hand coloured], 1890 - 1899

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377C/60
Scope and Contents

249 x 192 mm. General view looking along the moat.

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

Modern Commonwealth photograph collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MC
Scope and Contents This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...
Dates: 1936 - 1980
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).
 Item

Monkey carved stable, Nikko, 1870 - 1889

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/56
Scope and Contents

263 x 205 mm. Close up view of a carving of the Three Wise Monkeys. See also Y3021/159.

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).
 Item

Nagasaki, Japan [hand coloured], 1870 - 1900

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/95
Scope and Contents

770 x 209 mm (three prints joined). Panoramic view of Nagasaki looking down onto the town and harbour from the hills. With a Japanese cemetery in the foreground.

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).
 Item

Nagoya Castle, 1870 - 1920

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/122
Scope and Contents

242 x 193 mm. View of part of the battlements of Nagoya Castle, 90 miles ENE of Osaka on the shore of Ise Bay. The castle was built in 1612 by Ieyasa, punder of the Tokugawa Shogunate. 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).
 Item

Naraya's Hotel, Miyanoshita, 1870 - 1929

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/17
Scope and Contents

277 x 211 mm. Europeans and Japanese posed outside the building.

Dates: 1870 - 1929
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).
 Item

New Year’s Day, 1870 - 1889

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/1
Scope and Contents

100 x 205 mm. (vignetted oval). Full length portrait of a young man dressed in European suit with tailcoat, top hat and white gloves.

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).
 Sub-sub-class

News cuttings, 1945

 Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/15/4
Scope and Contents

A series of articles from the magazine ‘Illustrated’ and the newspapers ‘SEAC’, ‘The Malayan Times’ and ‘The Straits Times’ reporting the surrender of Japan and the treatment of military and civilian internees. These were collected by Weekley during Sept. 1945.

Dates: 1945
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8235.
 Item

Noge Hill, Yokohama, 1870 - 1889

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/59
Scope and Contents

263 x 202 mm. View looking along the unsurfaced road up the hill, lined with Japanese houses and cherry trees in blossom.

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).
 Item

Noge Hill, Yokohama, 1870 - 1889

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3039A/61
Scope and Contents

264 x 205 mm. Similar to Y3039A/59.

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).
 Item

Ogi-goku - 'Mouth of Hell' - near Miyanoshita, 1870 - 1912

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/132
Scope and Contents

256 x 186 mm. View looking across mountainous country, with steam issuing from craters in the middleground. 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).