Japanese Old Photographs in
Bakumatsu-Meiji Period
Nagasaki University’s searchable online database of historic pictures.
Japan Hand-Colored Photographs ca. 1880
University of California Riverside’s collection of early hand-tinted
photos. Unfortunately, you will have to do some searching on their site in order to find this collection;
it is no longer directly accessible.
The 1923 Tokyo Earthquake
Collection of photographs from the Great Kanto Earthquake of September 1,
1923.
Good Old Days Japan
Before World War II, amateur photographer Yoshimitsu Tashiro went around Japan
photographing scenes of daily life.
Remembering Nagasaki
Japanese army photographer Yosuke Yamahata chronicled the post-bombing devastation of
Nagasaki in striking images.
Stoddard’s Travels
In the mid-1890s, an American named John L. Stoddard toured Asia and published his
photographs and notes as a series of lectures. La Couture Parisienne has two pages of his photos
of Meiji-era Japanese costume, showing people in all walks of life: samurai to jinrikisha drivers,
geisha to laundresses.
Peter’s Japan
Page
Collection of postcards from 1900 to 1950
PhotoGuide Japan/PhotoPostcards
Another collection of vintage postcards, covering everything from Meiji-era geisha to
a Japanese astronaut on the Space Shuttle
Kenkichi’s Photo
Gallery
Amateur photographer Kenkichi Niwa spent nearly 70 years taking pictures of daily
life, beautiful scenes and festivals, mostly in and around his native Kyoto.
Photo Japan Stock Photography:
Japan Photo Gallery
Commercial photography site chronicling every aspect of modern Japan.
Japanese Old Photos from
1926 to 1942
Mainly taken at Kanda in Tokyo
Naomy’s Homepage
I followed a trail of links and ended up on this Japanese-language site of a postcard
collector with really good pictures of Tokyo and Yokohama.
Japanese Photo Exhibition
Hand-tinted albumin prints, mostly of domestic and street scenes.
Photographic Views of Meiji: A
Portrait of Old Japan
Early Western visitors included some excellent photographers.
Early Japanese
Photography
It didn’t take long before some Japanese artists also adopted the
camera.
Old Japan
Dealer in vintage photographs; site includes gallery of work by early Western and
Japanese photographers.
Sakura-Do
Dealer in vintage and art photographs.
Inaka Images of Rural Japan
An American exchange teacher photographs ordinary people in daily life.