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Small island and a sailing boat

A sailing boat floating on the water and a boatman holding the helm. The man wearing a top hat may be fishing. The sail has an opening to reduce pressure when strong winds blow. The location is probably Matsushima.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number10‐31‐0]

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Motomiya Garden,Hikone

A view of Hakkeitei with Tsukiyama in the background. A woman dressed in a kimono with hair done in Japanese style stands holding an umbrella. On the boat floating on the lake, two women dressed in kimono stand in the centre, one holding an umbrella. At the bow of the boat is the boatman.There is a man sitting at the stern and the helmsman holds a pole upright, standing with one foot on the edge of the boat.==Date:unknown, Place:Shiga, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number10‐21‐0]

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Mt. Fuji seen from Numakawa,Tagonoura

With Mt. Fuji topped with white snow in the background, a rickshaw, people and aged person appear on the wooden bridge over Numa River. The boat has one mast, and a square sail is placed in the middle. This is probably a cargo boat of the time called Bezai boat. The bay with Mt. Fuji in the background is a very popular scene in Japan.==Date:unknown, Place:Shizuoka, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number10‐15‐0]

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Shipbuilders

Four men build a boat by the water. Two men to the right use a saw to cut wood and carve wood with an axe. In the centre stands a man taking measurements of lumber using a curved measure, and a man who is probably a master carpenter stands observing the measurement. A woman carrying a baby on her back places her hands on the boat and watches the men work.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number10‐13‐0]

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MOGI

The mouth of the Wakana River. The bridge is the Wakana Bridge. The big building to the rear of the river is the Mogi town office, and boats in the center are cargo boats used for short distances, called Isabasen .==Date:Middle Meiji, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number8‐10‐0]

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A traditional boat

A large cargo ship in the Yamato style. From the design of the ship, it is believed to be of the later Kitamae period. Kitamae boats were active between the Edo era and middle Meiji era for trade with Hokkaido.==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number6‐27‐0]

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Cherry trees by the Edo River

The Kanda Josui (waterway) stretching from around Sekiguchidai in Koishikawa and Iida Bridge was called Edo River (different from the tributary of Tonegawa). It is said that cherry trees were planted here in 1884, but despite its shallow history, the area became a famous cherry blossom viewing site called the new Koganei by the end of Meiji Period. Several boat houses provided lodgings and rented out small boats of this kind. It was a refined pleasure to view the cherry blossoms from the boat. This is a magic lantern slide made around 1897.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number98‐35‐0]

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Matsushima

This photo captures Matsushima Beach as seen from Kyogashima Island. The Kanrantei Teahouse in the Momohama Period (late 16th century) architecture style, a Designated Cultural Asset of Miyagi Prefecture, is visible in the distance, just to the left side of the island. The boat is a chabune with full sail. The calm surface of the water is strikingly beautiful.==Date:1904, Place:Matsushima, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number98‐13‐0]

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A fishing boat returning at sunset

This is the mouth of the Rokugo River. This stereograph was sold in 1904 by Underwood & Underwood Co. The caption on the back reports that many Japanese artists like to draw this landscape and that so many people visit the area on festival days that the railway had to schedule a special train service.==Date:1904, Place:Tamagawa, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐90‐0]

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A cargo boat on the Nihonbashi River

View of Nihonbashi River looking west, taken from Nihonbashi Bridge. The river is busy with cargo boats. Mt. Fuji was visible from this spot on clear days. The left side of the river is Nishi-gashi (west riverside), and the bridge visible in the far right is Nishi (West) Bridge. This was a transitional period when land transportation was replacing water transportation, but at this time the canal still played a major role in transporting goods. This stereograph was published in 1904 in a book-shaped case.==Date:1904, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐78‐0]

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A deformed rock in Matsushima Bay

This is a magnificient view of the famous Zaimoku Island, an interesting geological arch formed by erosion. The layered sedimentary rock of this island teaches us much about the origins of Matsushima Bay. Unfortunately, the arch was partially destroyed by an earthquake in 1969. Then an off-shore earthquakein 1978 in Miyagi Prefecture destroyed what remained, and no geographical elements depicted in this photo can be seen any longer.==Date:1904, Place:Matsushima, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐54‐0]

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A man fishing with a square net

This is a valuable photo depicting a fishing technique previously unknown even to folklorists. It appears to be shirauo fishing in the early spring, as bamboo leaves are visible in the square net. In the backgound is a single-sailed boat called chabune.==Date:1904, Place:Matsushima, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐53‐0]

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A leisure boat on the Sumida River

This same photograph was carried in a special issue of Asahi Graph published by Tokyo Asahi Newspaper in 1925 to commemorate the centennial of photography in Japan, under the heading Boat Outing on Tokyo Sumida River with Uchida Kuichi around 1874. The caption says that the man leaning on the railing in the centre is Uchida Kuichi and that the photograph belongs to Hirata Kenichi. The fashion-conscious Uchida usually wore Western-style clothes in photographs, so this is a rare shot of him wearing a kimono.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number94‐20‐0]

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Yaomatsu Restaurant, Mukojima

Yaomatsu-ro Restaurant seen from Makura Bridge at confluence of the Gennomori and Sumida rivers. The restaurant was opened in April 1870 as a branch of Yaomatsu located at Suijin-no-Mori. Customers drank sake while enjoying the view of boats crossing the Sumida River and Sensoji Temple across the river, and Yaomatsu-ro gained popularity as an early waterfront restaurant. Taken between 1887 and 1897. Same as photograph #2104.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number93‐14‐0]

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Ferry boat

The embankment at Biwajima Benten was a landing spot for ferries crossing Hiragata Bay to Nojima. Most of the passengers are probably pilgrims from the Boso Peninsula traveling to Oyama. Today, Biwajima Benten is the last station on the Kanazawa Seaside Railroad Line. The byakushin trees (Juniperus chinensis) with white trunks in the photograph are still thriving today near Kanazawa Hakkei Station.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number92‐44‐0]

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A leisure boat on the Sumida River

Scene of entertainment in a boat on Sumida River. People used these boats to enjoy the cherry blossoms, visit famous historical places along the river, and to drink sake at restaurants. The flow of the river, controlled by embankments on both sides, was gentle enough to let people relax on the roof of the boats. This is probably impossible today, because the riverbanks have been reinforced with concrete and the flow is no longer gentle.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number91‐15‐0]

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Lake Chuzenji

Lake Yunoko is located at Yumoto Spa in Oku-Nikko. The lakeshore is deserted. Mt. Konsei is visible in the centre back. After passing Konsei Pass on the hillside, the road leads to Numata in Gunma Prefecture. A Japanese-style boat is seen carrying a large number of passengers on the lake.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number91‐10‐0]

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A leisure boat on the Sumida River

Roofed boat taken at the bank of Imado River in front of Yumei-ro where Sanya-bori (moat) merges with Sumida River. The water is too shallow to allow the boat to float, which explains why the photograph is so sharp. In the rear is Mukojima, site of Ushijima Shinto Shrine and Chomeiji Temple. Found in the collection of Uchida Kuichi preserved at Nagasaki Municipal Museum, this photograph was verified to have been taken by Uchida in 1872. This is one of the copies later made and sold.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Uchida Kuichi, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number90‐25‐0]

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Lake Chuzenji

Chugushi is seen on the hill in the centre back, along with the shacks for pilgrims (centre) and a part of Rokken-jaya (right foreground). Mt. Nantai is to the right of the photograph. A typhoon caused a severe flood on the mountainside in 1902. This photograph was taken before the damage.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number89‐1‐0]

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Lake Chuzenji

Ojiri River flows from Lake Chuzenji. Ojiri Bridge is visible in the centre. The lake is behind the bridge. The river flows in the foreground, reaches Kegon Falls, and turns into Daiya River. Chugushi is located to the right of the bridge and Utagahama beach to the left.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number88‐25‐0]

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A sunset and a sailboat,Lake Biwa

Maruko boats on Lake Biwa. This photograph seems to imitate the image Yabase-no-Kihan, one of Utagawa Hiroshige's Eight Scenes of Oumi and a representative ukiyoe print. Yabase-no-Kihan captures the scene of the boats used to ferry passengers between Otsu and Yabase (present-day Kusatsu City), returning to port. This was a shortcut on the Tokaido Highway.==Date:unknown, Place:Shiga, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number87‐35‐0]

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The ferries,Mukojima

This same photograph was carried in Nihon no Meisho (Beautiful Places of Japan) published by Shiden Hensansho in 1900 under the title, Entertainment on a Boat at Sumida River, and also under the title Boat Play in Tokyo F?kei (Tokyo Scenery) published by Ogawa Kazumasa in 1911. This photograph resembles two photographs taken by Uchida Kuichi, but it is probably an Ogawa Kazumasa photograph taken around 1897. Says Ogawa in the caption to his photograph, Since ancient times, the boat outing on Sumida River has been the most sophisticated of all pleasures.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number87‐7‐0]

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Matsushima

This is Rakanjima Island as seen from the beach at the tip of Kunoshima, located near Fukuurajima Island. At present, the right side of Rakanjima has collapsed, as many of the pines in Matsushima Bay have fallen victim to the pine-eating nematode beetle. However this photo demonstrates the lush pine cover of the island in those days.==Date:unknown, Place:Matsushima, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number86‐16‐0]

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Matsushima

This photo shows the Togetsukyo Bridge as seen from the centre of Ojima Island. Currently the bridge is painted red, but it is not known when this color was introduced, and it would be interesting to know if it was red at the time of the photo. There appear to be no parapets. These days, there is an esplanade on one bank.==Date:unknown, Place:Matsushima, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number86‐15‐0]

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Miyajima Island,Aki

Itsukushima (Miyajima) Island has a circumference of about 30km. Most of the seashore is in its original natural state, and the island has been designated a Special Place of Beauty by the Japanese government. The base rock of the island is granite and many cracks exist. In addition, many sea caves have been formed by waves crashing on the rocky coastline.==Date:unknown, Place:Miyajima, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number85‐31‐0]

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Matsushima

Matsushima==Date:unknown, Place:Matsushima, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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Ferryboats

A ferry boat carrying nine men is about to leave the river shore. A jinrikisha is on the ferry as well. Lumber, two loaded horses, and many people are visible on the shore. Four straw thatched houses are visible in the background.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number77‐44‐0]

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Ishiyama,Laka Biwa

Inns on the approach to Ishiyamadera. Visitors passed along this road in large numbers to the temple, which is located at the hill protruding in the centre. The neighbourhood was called Katahara-machi (One Side Field Town) because buildings were erected on only one side of the road. This is the view looking south from the area of present-day Ishiyamadera Station on the Keihan Dentetsu Line.==Date:unknown, Place:Otsu, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number77‐19‐0]

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The Mogi Coast

The mouth of the Wakana River at Mogi-Hongo in the mid-Meiji Period. Mogi was a popular resort among foreigners. The prefecture road to Mogi opened in 1885 and Mogi Hotel (later Beach Hotel) started service in 1906 and welcomed many visitors. This photograph evokes the rustic atmosphere of the fishing village.==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number73‐7‐0]

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Nagasaki Inasa Coast

A view of people enjoying a boat ride, Inasa, Nagasaki. Hand-tinted. It seems to have been taken by Uchida Kuichi when he accompanied Emperor Meiji on his trip to Nagasaki in 1872 as well as the photographs #1196 and #3238.==Date:about 1872, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Uchida Kuichi, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number66‐14‐0]

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Bigo Tomotsu

This is a view of Taiga Island, east of Tomo Port at Fukuyama, looking from Higashihama. Taigashima Castle was the headquarters of the Southern Court during the Southern and Northern Court Period (1336-92). During the Edo period, Enpukuji Temple was founded and a watch station was built to monitor boats coming in and out of Tomo Port. This photograph captures the boat docks with stairs behind the shop. Due to land reclamation these no longer exist.==Date:unknown, Place:Hiroshima, Photo:Uchida Kuichi, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number66‐2‐2]

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The trademark of Yokohama Photo Studio

The Yokohama Photograph Company was established at No.16 in the foreign settlement in 1884 by Usui Shuzaburo (an apprentice of Shimooka Renjo)and his partner David Welsh. Usui seems to have been in charge of taking the photographs while Welsh took care of marketing. The name of art dealer Deakin Brothers is written on the sail of the boat in the centre. The two companies were located next to each other on the same lot.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:Usui Shuzaburo?, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number65‐1‐0]

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Matsushima

This photo was taken from the stony shore of Oshima. The island on the right is Kujirajima, also known as Futagojima. Behind is Fukuurajima Island, where there is a natural botanical garden. This type of boat is called danbe . These islands have changed little since the time the photo was taken.==Date:unknown, Place:Matsushima, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number59‐57‐0]

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Matsushima

This is a view of Matsushima Bay from Oshima, which is known as a holy place. Some islands, Shiogama City, and the Urato Islands are visible in the distance, as well as the horizon of the Pacific Ocean. The wind fills the sails of the chabune in the foreground. Such boats no longer exist.==Date:unknown, Place:Matsushima, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number59‐52‐0]

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The shore of Lake Chuzenji

Chugushi at Futarasan Shinto Shrine on the north shore of Lake Chuzenji and the gyoja koya (pilgrim shacks). Mt. Nantai rises to the right, and the inner building of Futarasan Shinto Shrine is located on the summit. This was taken before the flood caused by a typhoon in 1902.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number54‐16‐0]

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A leisure boat on the Sumida River

This same photograph can be found in the memorial photograph album of Charles Appleton Longfellow, first son of the famous American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who lived in Japan from 1871 to 1873. Charles may have asked Uchida Kuichi to take this shot, and it could be Charles wearing a kimono and looking out from between the shoji screens. The woman second from the left is Okiku, owner of the restaurant Yumei-ro at Sanyabori, and the other women are Charles' favourite geisha. The roofed boat probably belongs to Yumei-ro.==Date:about 1872, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Uchida Kuichi, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number53‐50‐0]

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The ferries,Mukojima

The square pillar in the centre foreground is a mail box. Made of pine and painted black, mail boxes were placed on the streets of Japan for the first time in 1872. Foundation stones were placed under the mail boxes starting in 1887, so the mail box in this photograph was taken after 1887. Same as photograph #2657.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number53‐49‐0]

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The ferries,Mukojima

The area in front of Chomeiji Temple was called Kototoi-no-Oka. In 1869, Kototoi-tei opened and its Kototoi dumplings became a Mukojima specialty along with the cherry rice cakes of Chomeiji Temple. The shop curtain on the right seems to say Kototoi dango (dumplings), indicating that this is Kototoi-tei. Kototoi dumplings are still a local specialty at Mukojima. Taken in the mid-Meiji Period. Same as photograph #2664.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number53‐43‐0]

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A leisure boat on the Sumida River

Like photographs #2665 and #4543, this was taken at the bank of Imado River in front of Yumei-ro at the mouth of Sanya-bori. Ushijima Shinto Shrine, also called Ushi-no-Gozen (presently located at Mukojima 1-chome, downstream) and Choumeiji Temple are amid the tall trees at the rear. The person leaning on the handrail in the centre may be Uchida Kuichi. If so, this photograph was probably taken by his apprentice. The photograph was sold after being trimmed and tinted.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number53‐44‐0]

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Ferries,the Sumida River

Probably the ferry dock called Takeya-no-Watashi at Mukojima. Another photograph taken downstream shows these people at the same time. Stone steps descend to the river from where the man is standing in the centre, and the ferry dock called Terashima-no-Watashi is visible upstream. However, the boat depicted here is not a ferry but a yanebune (roofed boat) used for entertainment. This is one of the photographs in the album sold at Kinpei Photograph Studio, indicating that it was taken by Kusakabe Kinbei in the early Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number53‐31‐0]

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Ferries to Enoshima Island

Photographer unknown. The title, Ferry Boat at Enoshima, indicates that it depicts the ferry between Enoshima and Katase. However, no details are available.==Date:unknown, Place:Enoshima, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐163‐0]

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Winter scenery at Sanyabori

Sanya Moat looking upstream from Imadobashi, the bridge furthermost downstream on the moat. Until the mid-Meiji Period, this area was a pleasure quarter with restaurants and geisha houses. The Choki-bune (boats) that ferried customers to the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter used to pass here, and thus going to Sanya became a synonym for going to Yoshiwara. Nine bridges spanned Sanya Moat, but they were all later removed as part of land reclamation projects. The site is now Sanyabori Park. This photograph was taken in 1868 by Uchida Kuichi.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐34‐0]

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Benzai boat in Numazu

Benzai boat in Numazu==Date:1887-1896 , Place:Numazu, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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Yaomatsu Restaurant, Mukojima

Yaomatsu Restaurant on the right was opened in a refurbished boat shed formerly owned by the Tokugawa family of Mito. The water in front is probably Gennomori River, seen from Makura Bridge. There was a ferry stop at the end of the bridge called Yamanoshuku-no-Watashi (Makurabashi-no-Watashi) for passage to Asakusa on the other side of the river. The five-story pagoda Kan'non-do Hall and the Nio Gate of Sensoji Temple are visible. The Ryounkaku built in 1890 is visible to the left of the pagoda, indicating that the photograph was taken after that year.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number47‐7‐0]

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Wharf at Chuzenji Lake

The pier near Ojiri Bridge on the shores of Lake Chuzenji. It is the same pier as in the photo numbered 46-164.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number46‐167‐0]

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Lake Chuzenji

The view of Osaki at the north bank of Lake Chuzenji from the pier near the Ojiri Bridge on the shores of Lake Chuzenji. To the right is the slope of Nantaisan. It is the same pier as in the photo numbered 46-167.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number46‐164‐0]

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Junk on the sea

Photos with the number 46 are from an individual's collection taken in Japan and China. Many photos of the time are single photos, while this is a series of photos in an individual's album. ==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number46‐54‐0]

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A traditional boat

A Japanese boat moving with one square shaped sail. This is probably the Isaba boat used west of the Kansai area. It was used to transport cargo. It is a rather big boat. The location of the photo is unknown.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number43‐2‐0]

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A yakatabune (a leisure boat)

Similar to a series of photos such as no. 12-28 with the same title. What is seen on the opposite bank is probably the cherry trees in full bloom. It is interesting to see that people are usually on the roof in these pictures.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Suzuki Shin-ichi, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number41‐50‐0]