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

780280

Artist

  • Beato, Felice
  • 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

  • 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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Portrait of Seated Japanese Woman

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Portrait of Seated Japanese Woman

JPR-111882

$480.00
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Antique Dealer

Antique Dealer

JP-94791

$780.00
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Children

Kusakabe, Kimbei

Children

JP-94411

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Miyanoshita

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Miyanoshita

JP-94400

$420.00
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Carrying Water

Tamamura, Kozaburo

Carrying Water

JP-94361

$480.00
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Pipe Seller

Beato, Felice

Pipe Seller

JP-94242

$280.00
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Man Dressed in Montsuki-hakama

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Man Dressed in Montsuki-hakama

JP-94221

$420.00
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House Cleaning

House Cleaning

JPR-111880

$480.00
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