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
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Price

580320

Artist

  • Kusakabe, Kimbei
  • 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

  • Medium (ie. Oban)

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Portrait of a Girl

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Portrait of a Girl

JP-210391

$450.00
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Music Lessons

Kusakabe, Kimbei

Music Lessons

JP-94126

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Portrait of Seated Japanese Woman

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Portrait of Seated Japanese Woman

JPR-111882

$480.00
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Rickshaw

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Rickshaw

JP-94781

$460.00
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Wisteria Blossoms

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Wisteria Blossoms

JP-94219

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Shamisen

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Shamisen

JP-94421

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Flower Selling

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Flower Selling

JP-94187

$480.00
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Fixing Her Obi

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Fixing Her Obi

JP-94222

$580.00
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Dressed for the New Year

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Dressed for the New Year

JP-94220

$480.00
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Girls' Feelings

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Girls' Feelings

JP-94190

$580.00
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