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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Price

78080

Artist

  • Beato, Felice
  • Kusakabe, Kimbei
  • Tamamura, Kozaburo
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Architectural
  • 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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Kashiwabara

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Kashiwabara

JP-94404

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Miyanoshita

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Miyanoshita

JP-94400

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Carrying Water

Tamamura, Kozaburo

Carrying Water

JP-94361

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Tomb of Shogun Ieyasu, Nikko

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Tomb of Shogun Ieyasu, Nikko

JP-94358

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Mississippi Bay, Yokohama

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Mississippi Bay, Yokohama

JP-94356

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Pipe Seller

Beato, Felice

Pipe Seller

JP-94242

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Man Dressed in Montsuki-hakama

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Man Dressed in Montsuki-hakama

JP-94221

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Nagasaki Harbor

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Nagasaki Harbor

JP-94032

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Lotus Flowers at Kamakura

Tamamura, Kozaburo

Lotus Flowers at Kamakura

JP5587

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House Cleaning

House Cleaning

JPR-111880

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Hozugawa, a Rapids at Kyoto

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Hozugawa, a Rapids at Kyoto

JP-94241

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Gardens at Tokyo

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Gardens at Tokyo

JP-94448

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Dainichido Gardens at Nikko

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Dainichido Gardens at Nikko

JP-94348

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Miyanoshita

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Miyanoshita

JP-94418

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Takaboko, Nagasaki

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Takaboko, Nagasaki

JP-94409

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