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Chanson singer Ashino dies

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Japanese chanson singer Hiroshi Ashino. He died of pneumonia in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2012 at age 87.

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Morning-after smile is still gold

Japan's Tae Satoya shows her gold medal to reporters on Feb. 12, the day after her stunning victory in the freestyle skiing moguls at the Nagano Olympics. Alongside her is head coach Takashi Ashino.

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Byobu torii gate at the approach to hakone shrine

The Byobu Torii on the way to Hakone Shinto Shrine with a view of Ashino Lake. The seats to the right were there until the early Meiji era. A very similar photo appears in The Far East Vol. 2-20, with people in a different position.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐41‐0]

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Old town by lake ashinoko

Scene near the entrance of the cedar tree boulevard by Ashino Lake. A telephone pole is seen in the picture. Telecommunications came to Hakone post office only in July 1881, so the photo was taken after that. If this is an electric pole, the date of the photo goes back to 1912.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number7‐23‐0]

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Post town at the lakeside

There are no clues to estimating the location of the photo, but from a comparison with other pictures, it is probably the area around Lake Ashino. In any case, it is a shukuba city bustling with energy. This photo is also beautiful as a landscape picture.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number37‐75‐0]

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Lake Ashi

The screen torii on the way down with a view of Ashino Lake looking towards Hakone Shrine. At present, only the monument is left standing next to a gasoline station. Many pictures use this angle, but the hut to the right of the torii indicates that this photo was taken in the early Meiji Era.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:F. Beato, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number36‐11‐0]

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Lake Ashi

Ashino Lake and Mt. Fuji from the shore near the present Hakone Elementary School. To the right at the foot of the mountains is Hakone Shrine. It is a typical photo introducing Hakone. Three people are seen rowing a boat, but their position is rather unnatural and was probably assumed for the picture.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number31‐76‐0]

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Statues of Enmeijizo (giving a long-life) by Lake Ashi

This photo was taken before the Buddha destruction movement, and there were many large and small Buddhist statues around the banks of Ashino Lake. This one in the centre was described by Kaempfer and other early writers.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:F. Beato, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number36‐7‐0]

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Lake Ashi

Lake Ashino and the Sekisho of Hakone can be seen to the left. The Sekisho of Hakone was famous as a place to guard the Tokaido, together with the Sekisho of Arai. It was established with a double fence built in the lake. To the distance is the Honjin where the warrior lords stayed during trips back and forth to Edo.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number31‐73‐0]

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Hafuya hotel

The Hafuya Shirozaemon of Odawara machi in Hakonejuku continued business in the Meiji Era as a Japanese-style hotel. The photo was taken at that time. Palanquins and guests of the hotel can be seen. The Fujiya Hotel bought it later and it became the present Hakone Hotel. Ashino Lake and Mt. Fuji can also be seen.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number31‐66‐0]

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Sunset glow in lake ashinoko

A view to the west from Mishimacho of Hakonejuku. Although not clear in this picture, it is a scenic spot where Mt. Fuji can be seen in the distance. Lake Ashino belonged to Hakone Shrine, and was called the water for washing hands of Hakone Gongen. At present, Shizuoka Prefecture holds the water rights due to the Shinra irrigation channel.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number31‐54‐0]

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Lake Ashi

A photo of a person wearing a hanten and standing backwards on the cedar boulevard by the shores of Lake Ashino. From the telegraph pole, we know this picture was taken after 1881 when telegraphy started around Lake Ashino. The building to the left is the so-called Honjin of the Hakonejuku. This was taken from very near the ruins of the Sekisho.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number31‐26‐0]

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Statues of Enmeijizo (giving a long-life) by Lake Ashi

In Hakone, a movement to destroy Buddhist statues was seen after the official separation of Shinto and Buddhist rituals in 1868, and the Buddhist images by Ashino Lake were also damaged. In the picture, a tragic scene with a broken halo and the stone lantern torn down can be seen. This jizo still exists at Tokujoin in Odawara.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number24‐23‐0]

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Ashinoyu hot spring

The building on the right is Matsuzakaya, and in the centre is Kinokuniya. Ashino Spa was destroyed by fire directly after this photo was taken in 1872, so this is a rare photo that captures the scenery before that time. It is also seen in The Far East vol. 2-15.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐45‐0]

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Lake ashinoko from hakone teahouse

A view of Ashino Lake from Mibuya, a hotel in Hakone. The same camera angle is observed in The Far East Vol. 2-14. Newspapers at that time pasted photos directly on the paper, so the photos differed slightly with each newspaper.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐42‐0]

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Byobu torii gate at the approach to hakone shrine

This torii does not stand at present, only a monument next to a petrol station. But it was probably famous during the Meiji era, and many photos remain of this scene. A procession of mountain palanquins and umbrellas is seen, some of the people looking like soldiers. It is scenic spot with a view of Ashino Lake.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number14‐7‐0]

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HAKONE

A photo of Hakonejuku from near the remains of Hakone sekisho (checking station). The building to the left is Hafuya Hotel, with remains of honjin (the lodgings of warrior lords) in the rear. Where Ashino Lake can be seen in the photo is at present a pier for tourist boats. The electric poles indicate that this was taken after 1881.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number9‐9‐0]

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HAKONE

The view of Ashino Lake and Motohakone near Hakone Shrine. The rock seen to the left bank in the photo is the tsunagi ishi (through stone) of Soga Goro and is presently buried under a manhole by shore reinforcement construction. The photo was taken after 1881, because there is no kettle by the Ichino torii to the centre left.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number9‐10‐0]

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Lake Ashi

The white pole shows the remains of the sekisho (check point).In the left corner is the Hafuya Hotel, and to the right are remains of the honjin (officially appointed inns) of the lords Kawada Kakuemon, Komasa Goemon, Ishiuchi Tarozaemon and Amano Hirazaemon. The photo portrays the area which at present is a pier for tourist boats on Ashino Lake.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number6‐11‐0]

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Mt. FUJI from hakone

The view around Oncho Park (the former Hakone Rikyu) in the vicinity of the Hakone Sekisho (checking station) near the Mikaeri Pine. A typical photo of Hakone inculuding the Sekisho, Lake Ashino and Mt. Fuji.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number5‐25‐0]

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The Hakone post town

Looking toward Odawara from the south of Mishima in Hakonejuku. The houses have not changed from the Edo era. To the left of Ashino Lake in the hills, the Hakone Rikyu can be seen, so we know that this photo was taken after 1886. The cedar tree in the centre is a remainder of the sekisho (checking station).==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number5‐22‐0]

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Byobu torii gate at the approach to hakone shrine

The Byobu torii at the entrance to Hakone Shinto Shrine. At present, the torii has been replaced by a stone inscription. It is a scenic spot overlooking Ashino Lake, and an important crossroad connecting Hatajuku and Sengokubara. It was a favorite motif for photographs.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number5‐21‐0]

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The Hakone post town

A scene in Hakone. The four houses in the centre are honjin (main lodgings) used by the feudal lords when they paid visits to Edo. The forefront is the Hafuya Hotel, which was absorbed into the Fujiya Hotel Group and later became the Hakone Hotel. To the right is Ashino Lake. In the background is Mt.Daikan and Kurakake on the left.==Date:Early Meiji, Place:Hakone, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number3‐41‐0]

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Mt. Fuji seen from Lake Ashi

Ashino Lake and Mt.Fuji seen from the forefront of Hakone Elementary School. It is a view of the so-called Sakasa Fuji (Mt.Fuji upside down). In the mountain to the right of the lake is the Hakone Gongen. The famous red torii of the shrine was built in 1960 to commemorate the official investiture of the Crown Prince and so is not in the photo.==Date:Middle Meiji, Place:Hakone, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number3‐42‐0]

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Chanson singer Ashino dies

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Japanese chanson singer Hiroshi Ashino. He died of pneumonia in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2012 at age 87. (Kyodo)

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Morning-after smile is still g

Japan's Tae Satoya shows her gold medal to reporters on Feb. 12, the day after her stunning victory in the freestyle skiing moguls at the Nagano Olympics. Alongside her is head coach Takashi Ashino. ==Kyodo