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Film and Photography gallery 1: Tourist Photographs
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are from the collection of the German forest engineer R. Shilling,
who was in Japan from 1899-1903. These were commercial photographs
which were sold and purchased to be inserted into a book of photos
like Mr. Shilling's. Many of these same images were also used on
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 View
of Mount Fuji from Kashiwabara. Photographer unknown.
From Margarita Winkel, Souvenirs from Japan (London: Bamboo Publishing
Ltd., 1991) 115.
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 Checking
and Weighing Tea Leaves. Photographer unknown.
From Winkel, Souvenirs from Japan, 44.
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Geisha.
As Winkel notes, various items that can be identified by a foreigner
as 'Japanese' have been placed together in this photo. One girl
holds a fan, another serves tea, and a third is filling her pipe
from a tobacco pouch.
From Winkel, Souvenirs from Japan, 100.
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"Whispering."
Photographer unknown.
From Winkel, Souvenirs from Japan, 97.
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Laughing
geisha. Photographer unknown.
From Winkel, Souvenirs from Japan, 111.
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Lower-ranking
Yoshiwara prostitutes, in a modern version of the "kaomise."
Note the electric lamp above the protitutes' head.
From Winkel, Souvenirs from Japan, 46.
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Courtesans
(tayû) and attendants (kamuro).
From Winkel, Souvenirs from Japan, 57.
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A
lacquer cover for a Meiji period photo album.
From Japan Photographers Association, A Century of Japanese
Photography (London: Hutchinson, 1981) 69.
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Chieko,
a geisha of the Nihonbashi district, Tokyo. Photographer unknown.
From a photo book published around 1883-1897.
From A Century of Japanese Photography, 69.
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Sumo
wrestlers. Photographer unknown. Note that the name of the wrestlers'
stable on two of the skirts (keshomawashi) is written in Roman
letters.
From Winkel, Souvenirs from Japan, 55.
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Tattooed
man pouring a cup of sake. Photographer unknown.
From Winkel, Souvenirs from Japan, 52.
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Four
more souvenir photographs: clockwise, from upper left: "Home
Bathing," "Harakiri," "Jinrikisha," "Girls
in Bed Room." 1883-1897.
From A Century of Japanese Photography, 86.
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Rokku
theater district, Asakusa. the Ryôunkaku ('Cloud-surpassing
tower')-- also known as the Asakusa Jûnikai-- is visible
in the background.
From Winkel, Souvenirs from Japan, 120.
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Kabukiza
(kabuki theater) built in 1889 east of Ginza. This was the first
kabukiza with a Western-style facade. In the Meiji period, Japanese
authorities strived to remake kabuki from a plebian art into a
respectable, elite form of theater-- part of the "official
culture" of Japan worthy of showing to foreigner visitors.
From Winkel, Souvenirs from Japan, 124.
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