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Call Number:

PH-02215

Collection Name:

Young Japan. Yokohama and Yedo. A Narrative of the Settlement and the City...

Creator:

unidentified photographer

No. of Items:

15 items

Span Dates:

1880-1881

Description:

Photographically illustrated book by John Reddie Black (1827-1880) entitled Young Japan. Yokohama and Yedo. A Narrative of the Settlement and the City from the Signing of the Treatise in 1858, to the Close of the Year 1879. With a Glance at the Progress of Japan During a Period of Twenty-one Years (London: Trubner & Co.; Yokohama: Kelly & Co., 1880-1881). Published as two volumes, the Ransom Center has volume 1 only. It contains 15 mounted albumen prints, the captions for which follow.

958:0177:0001 -- His Highness the Last Shogun;

958:0177:0002 -- Uraga;

958:0177:0003 -- Mr. Harris’s Temple Residence. At Kakisaki, near Shimoda;

958:0177:0004 -- Yedo Castle;

958:0177:0005 -- Farm House and Shimoda;

958:0177:0006 -- Kannushi. Or Priest of the Shinto Religion;

958:0177:0007 -- Samurai, Fully Armed;

958:0177:0008 -- Man at Arms;

958:0177:0009 -- At Osaka, Castle. Outside one of the Castle Gates;

958:0177:0010 -- A Kuge. Noble of Imperial lineage;

958:0177:0011 -- The Plains of Heaven;

958:0177:0012 -- Kamakura. Temple of Hatchiman Dai-Bosatsu;

958:0177:0013 -- At Play;

958:0177:0014 -- Kubota Sentaro;

958:0177:0015 -- Map of the inland sea.

Accession No(s):

958:0177:0001-0015

Location(s):

DS 881 B62 HRC-P (958:0177:0001-0015)
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