Vintage Japan

Japanese (9th Reg. 4th Div.) ready for battle - awaiting orders 

for the advance - siege of Port Arthur, 1905

  

Peasant praying before long row of images of the God of Light. 

South bank Diya river, Nikko, Japan, ca. 1904

 

Street advertisers, Japan, 1905

 

The Ginza (looking north) the most important 

thoroughfare in Tokyo, Japan, ca. 1904

 

The principal thoroughfare of busy Tokyo, Japan, 1905

 

Watching a free show, on Theatre Street, looking north 

to Asakusa Tower, Tokyo, Japan, 1904

 

Women and children of a Japanese family in Uyeno park, 

during the Cherry-blossom festival, Tokyo, Japan, 1904

Vintage Japan

Japanese music - mendicant friars play, 1935

  

The most distinguished family in the fishing village

 

Theatre Street, Yokohama

 

Two women on a bridge in a garden - 

Geishas in the garden of a tea house

 

Young woman (possibly a geisha)

 

Source: National Museum of Denmark

Vintage Japan

Geisha girls out for an airing in rickshaws - 

along the Old Avenue, Nara, Japan, ca. 1906

  

Japanese mothers and children on a fishing trip, 1919

 

Passing away a dull hour - Geisha girls dancing, Japan, 1906

 

Peasant women heading rice with steel combs
in the fields on Suruga Bay, Japan, 1906

 

The little daughter of a Japanese gentleman 

playing the koto, Tokyo, Japan, 1906

 

Source: Library of Congress Stereograph Collection

Japan

These are from the Library of Congress Stereograph Collection.

Geisha girls out for an airing in rickshaws - 

along the Old Avenue, Nara, Japan, ca. 1906

 

Japanese mothers and children on a fishing trip, 1919

 

Passing away a dull hour - Geisha girls dancing, Japan, 1906

 

Peasant women heading rice with steel combs 

in the fields on Suruga Bay, Japan, 1906

 

The little daughter of a Japanese gentleman 

playing the koto, Tokyo, Japan, 1906

Vintage Japan

These photos of Japan are from the Library of Congress Stereograph Collection.

A Japanese woman carrying two babies on yoke, 1928

  

A morning ride in a jinrikisha, Sugita, Japan, 1896

  

 A peasant woman, with baby tied on her back, washing 

lettuce, on the shore of Lake Motosu, Japan, 1904

  

 Amidst the beauties of springtime--dwarf cherry 

trees at Omuro Gosho temple, ca. 1904

  

Coaling the Pacific Mail S.S. "Siberia" at the 

fortified naval station of Nagasaki, Japan, 1904

Vintage Japan

People wading in sea

  

Three women with fans, musical instrument and a table set with food

  

Two young women in kimonos, one standing, one seated on 

wooden bench outside open greenhouses filled with blooming flowers

   

Women at work with children watching

  

Women planting rice

 

Source: University of Victoria Libraries

Vintage Japan

A traveller in a sedan chair (litter)

  

Boys fishing in a river

  

Geisha

  

Small girls dressed up for the Bommatsuri festival

  

Street life in Yokohama park with blossoming cherry trees

 

Source: National Museum of Denmark

Vintage Japan

These colorized photos are from a group dated to 1910.

 
Source: University of Victoria Libraries

Vintage Japan

These historical photos of Japan are from the National Museum of Denmark Flickr site; they were part of a collection which belonged to a journalist named Holger Rosenberg.

Arnold Genthe

Final batch of Genthe's photos of Japan.

This is an enlargement of the sign posted on the beach in the above picture. 

Can anyone who reads Japanese translate it for us? My guess is it's 

something like "Men only to the right, women only to the left."