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

Price

580380

Artist

  • 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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Flower Selling

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Flower Selling

JP-94187

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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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Lotus Flowers at Kamakura

Tamamura, Kozaburo

Lotus Flowers at Kamakura

JP5587

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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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