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A rapid river at Miyanoshita

This is Hayakawa River as seen between Miyanoshita and Kiga Hot Springs. The wooden bridge must be the one near present-day Tokyo Electric Kawakubo Power Plant along the Hayakawa Promenade. The roof of a building is visible at center left, but it is not clear what it is.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number98‐37‐0]

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Saruhashi

Sarubashi (Monkey Bridge) spans Katsura River in Sarubashi-cho, Otsuki City, Yamanashi Prefecture. This bridge is considered one of the three most unusual bridges in Japan, together with Kiso-no-Kakehashi (Gifu Prefecture) and Kintai-kyo of Suo (Yamaguchi Prefecture). It was designated a National Place of Scenic Beauty in 1932. Sarubashi is designed in hijikiketa style, which is characterized by a lack of vertical supports. This is a view of the bridge from upstream. Many people are on the bridge. The date is unknown.==Date:unknown, Place:Yamanashi, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number82‐47‐0]

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Nunobiki Falls

Medaki waterfall at Nunobiki Falls, taken around the same time as photographs #2814 and 2827 (Medaki Waterfall of Nunobiki). The presence of the wooden bridge over the river and the teahouse and the absence of a water supply pump suggest that this was taken on the mid-Meiji Period. It seems to be a scene in summer, when many visitors came to enjoy the cool air.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number82‐8‐0]

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Waterfalls at Miyanoshita

This is the same spot of the Jakotsu River as illustrated in the Mannen Bridge of Hakone Sokokura Yumoto(1880) by Kiyochika Kobayashi. Supposing that this was taken from Mannen Bridge, judging from the angle, this may date to between 1873, when the bridge was built, and 1889 when the bridge was gone.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number77‐24‐0]

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Nunobiki Falls

Medaki waterfall at Nunobiki Falls, taken around the same time as photograph #2271 (Shinkoji Temple), #4092 (Mt. Suwa), and #4094 (Arima Spa) in the mid-Meiji Period. Visitors normally took the path on the right side of the river and then proceeded along the road to the left to Medaki waterfall. After that, they crossed a wooden bridge and negotiated the winding mountain path to Odaki waterfall.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number68‐4‐2]

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A suspension bridge by the Koshu Road

This photograph depicts a river with a suspension bridge in the background. Neither the name of the bridge nor the location is known, but since the inscription says, Along the Koshu Highway, and the scenery around Katsura River was similar at the time, this seems to be the area east of Otsuki City, Yamanashi Prefecture. However, this site could not be positively identified in Yamanashi, so it may also be a scene along the highway on the Sagami side of the river.==Date:unknown, Place:Yamanashi, Photo:Usui Shuzaburo?, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number65‐13‐0]

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Nunobiki Falls

This is Medaki Waterfall of Nunobiki. This photograph is assumed to have been taken in Mid-Meiji Period around the same time as the photograph #2827 and #4240, as the wooden bridge which surrounds the river and the teahouse were already built. As the caption at the lower right says '1208. METAKI WATERFALL KOBE', this photograph was taken and sold by the photographer Kinbei Kusakabe of Yokohama.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number56‐21‐0]

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Nunobiki Falls

This is Metaki Waterfall of Nunobiki. Nunobiki Waterfalls located in the upstream of Ikuta River consist of Otaki, Meotodaki, Tsuzumigadaki. Since the wooden bridge which surrounds the river and the teahouse were not built yet, this photograph is assumed to have been taken in the first half of the Meiji Period. Although the tinting is different, this is the same as the photographs #4481, 4682, and 4870.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number56‐15‐0]

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Clear stream among mountains

A view of the direction of Tonosawa from downstream of the Haya River, near the steel bridge of the present Hakone Tozan Railway. The place is called Osaka. Since electric wires can be seen, we know that the photo was taken after 1892. Probably taken simultaneously as the photo numbered 46-181.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number46‐182‐0]

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River in valley

Great rocks stand here and there, and the water rushes past them. The exposure time is long so the splashes of water cannot be seen, but the fast river flow can be observed. A person crosses the bridge in the distance.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:[R. Stillfried], (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number27‐10‐0]

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River at miyagino

A view of Miyagino bridge from the bottom of the present Gorazaka. The water of the Haya River and people fishing can be seen. The present scenery is different due to the change in the stone walls and embankment, but the same big rocks in the photo still exist. The trees on both sides and the distant mountain (Myojindake) have not changed to the present day.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number5‐12‐0]