ILEA000322259: A wheel and a potter painting a picture

A leader and his pupil

A master carpenter from Yamaguchi-gumi poses with his apprentice. The resemblance suggests that they are father and son. If this is correct, their family name could be Kumada. The master carpenter is holding a deerstalker hat and wearing leather shoes. They may have dressed up for the photograph. This photograph was taken at a studio with a backdrop, not on location, probably around 1897.==Date:1924, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number72‐31‐0]

Shippoyaki (cloisonne ware) craftsmen

Young craftsmen work on vases in the cloisonne workshop of Namikawa Yasuyuki, using small tools at individual tables. Namikawa is observing their work from behind. Many small bottles of paint and chemicals are visible on the shelves behind the glass doors in the background. This may have been taken by H. G. Ponting in 1904.==Date:1904, Place:Kyoto, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐29‐0]

Workmen doing iron-pot work

Potters tend the fire in a noborigama (climbing kiln) at the Kinkozan Sobei Kiln. Three men are checking the condition of the fire. The kiln is made from bricks and clay. It was located in Sanjo-Awataguchi and specialized in Awata style pottery. Founded in 1633, it exported ceramic ornaments and utensils to North America and Europe as well as China and India. This may have been taken by the British photographer H. G. Ponting.==Date:1904, Place:Kyoto, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐30‐0]

Stirring the paddy field

A farmer is cultivating the field using black-haired cow at a rice paddie in Uji. A rope and a plow are tied to the back of the cow and each time the cow pulls the plow, the rice paddie is cultivated. A big warehouse is behind and a small shack covered with mats is made temporarily next to it, and a farmer with a balance pole is carrying goods. The rice seedlings may be preserved in the shack. This photo could have been taken by the British photographer H. G. Ponting in 1904.==Date:1904, Place:Uji, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐24‐0]

Girls painting pictures on ceramics

Girls paint ceramic wares for export. Seated in a line on long benches, they are painting various types of pottery such as vases and plates. They all have their hair pulled up. Some of them are very young, This may have been taken by the British photographer H. G. Ponting.==Date:1904, Place:Kyoto, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐28‐0]

Ainu people

Men are wearing the crowns used in religious rituals. The man standing in the centre is wearing a war coat over a cotton garment and a sword in a shoulder belt. The sitting men are holding a set of ikupasuy utensils on top of a lacquerware bowl, all indispensable to Ainu rituals. The woman is pouring the sake.==Date:unknown, Place:Hokkaido, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number60‐3‐0]

A Christmas picture card

This is an Englishman's Christmas card taken from a private photograph album. The card was probably commissioned by the person in the centre. Photographs of Edward VII (king of England 1901-10) and his wife are surrounded by shots of Japan and China. The caption identifies the photographer as Weihaiwei.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number69‐23‐0]

Ikegami Honmonji Temple

Honmonji Temple is the main temple of the Nichiren Sect of Japanese Buddhism, built on the site of Nichiren's death in 1288. The five-story pagoda visible in the back was constructed by the 2nd Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada in 1607. Today, it is the only pagoda in Japan conveying the Japanese-Chinese building style of the Momoyama Period and the oldest five-story pagoda in Tokyo. The building in the foreground is the Kodo (Drum Hall).==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number91‐2‐0]

Portrait of a foreign man

The identity of the person in the picture is unknown, but it is a portrait of the bust upwards, from the angle of a profile. It is the most effective angle to portray a Westerner with many shadows in the face. A masterpiece of the professional photographer, Ogawa Kazuma.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number25‐18‐0]

Parents and children (Mori Yashichi,etc.) (Sakai)

The photograph mount indicates that this is the work of Taki Sakae, a professional photographer in the city of Sakai. Before the popularization of the camera, wealthy families visited studios to take family pictures on occasions such as New Year's Day.==Date:1893, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number71‐86‐0]

A wheel and a potter painting a picture

Similar Images & Videos