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

78080

Artist

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

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Architectural
  • 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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Honganji Temple

Honganji Temple

JP-94085

$80.00
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Portrait of a Girl

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Portrait of a Girl

JP-210391

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A Festival

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

A Festival

JP-94401

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Funeral Procession

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Funeral Procession

JP-94308

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Portrait of Seated Japanese Woman

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Portrait of Seated Japanese Woman

JPR-111882

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Rickshaw

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Rickshaw

JP-94781

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Antique Dealer

Antique Dealer

JP-94791

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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

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Sakura-Baba at Nagasaki

JP-94188

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Pagoda at Nara

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Pagoda at Nara

JP-94408

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Flower Selling

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Flower Selling

JP-94187

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View of Sacred Bridge, Nikko

Kusakabe, Kimbei

View of Sacred Bridge, Nikko

JP-94420

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Wisteria at Nikko Kaido 500 Years Old Cobere 4000 Square Feet Blossoms...

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Wisteria at Nikko Kaido 500 Years Old Cobere 4000 Square Feet Blossoms...

JP-94266

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Nagasaki

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Nagasaki

JP-94227

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Flower Seller and Child

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Flower Seller and Child

JP-94226

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Fixing Her Obi

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Fixing Her Obi

JP-94222

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Dressed for the New Year

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Dressed for the New Year

JP-94220

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Torii at Nikko

Torii at Nikko

JP-94209

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Girls' Feelings

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Girls' Feelings

JP-94190

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Japanese Figures and Pine Boughs

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Japanese Figures and Pine Boughs

JP-94449

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Ojigoku Hot Spring

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Ojigoku Hot Spring

JP-94410

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Yomeimon Gate of Nikko

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Yomeimon Gate of Nikko

JP-94406

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Shiba at Tokyo

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Shiba at Tokyo

JP-94405

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