Meiji Photography

Following the Meiji Restoration, photographs became almost as popular as woodblock prints. By the 1890s, there were well over 800 professional photography studios in Japan, primarily situated in the port towns of Yokohama and Nagasaki, but also rapidly expanding to the major urban center of Tokyo. Photographers of this period often echoed traditional pictorial subjects from painting and ukiyo-e, but were also inventive and artistic. Subjects ranged from studio photography of beautiful women and urban scenes of shopkeepers, rickshaws, and peddlers, to natural wonders such as Mt. Fuji in the mist, cherry blossoms and temples. Ronin Gallery is pleased to open up a portal into the real and imagined world of modern Japan with our collection of Meiji-period photography. These images of traditional Japan still hold the same magic as they did when the world first saw them more than a century before.

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Availability

  • Available
  • Archive

Price

580180

Artist

  • Kusakabe, Kimbei
  • Tamamura, Kozaburo
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Architectural
  • Autumn
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Bridges
  • Children
  • Flowers & Gardens
  • Landscapes
  • Mt. Fuji
  • Music & Dance
  • Nature
  • Pastimes
  • Portraits
  • Rituals & Beliefs
  • Spring
  • Warriors & Samurai
  • Waterfalls and Rapids
  • Waterscapes

Period

  • 1868 - 1912 (Meiji)

Medium

  • Photography

Size

  • Small (ie. Chuban)
  • Medium (ie. Oban)

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Pagoda at Ueno (Kaneiji Temple)

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Pagoda at Ueno (Kaneiji Temple)

JP-94785

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Imaichi Road to Nikko

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Imaichi Road to Nikko

JP-94778

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Sakura-Baba at Nagasaki

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Sakura-Baba at Nagasaki

JP-94188

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Pagoda at Nara

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Pagoda at Nara

JP-94408

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View of Sacred Bridge, Nikko

Kusakabe, Kimbei

View of Sacred Bridge, Nikko

JP-94420

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Nagasaki

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Nagasaki

JP-94227

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Takinogawa near Tokyo

Tamamura, Kozaburo

Takinogawa near Tokyo

JP-94225

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Torii at Nikko

Torii at Nikko

JP-94209

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Ojigoku Hot Spring

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Ojigoku Hot Spring

JP-94410

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Kashiwabara

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Kashiwabara

JP-94404

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Miyanoshita

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Miyanoshita

JP-94400

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Mississippi Bay, Yokohama

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Mississippi Bay, Yokohama

JP-94356

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Nagasaki Harbor

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Nagasaki Harbor

JP-94032

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Lotus Flowers at Kamakura

Tamamura, Kozaburo

Lotus Flowers at Kamakura

JP5587

$580.00
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Hozugawa, a Rapids at Kyoto

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Hozugawa, a Rapids at Kyoto

JP-94241

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Gardens at Tokyo

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Gardens at Tokyo

JP-94448

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Dainichido Gardens at Nikko

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Dainichido Gardens at Nikko

JP-94348

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Miyanoshita

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Miyanoshita

JP-94418

$440.00
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Takaboko, Nagasaki

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Takaboko, Nagasaki

JP-94409

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Kinkakuji Garden at Kioto

Tamamura, Kozaburo

Kinkakuji Garden at Kioto

JPH164

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