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Mt. Fuji seen from a tea field

A scene of the picking of tea leaves. The location may be near Mishima. There are places with the name Chabatake (tea field), so the place may in fact be called Chabatake.==Date:unknown, Place:Shizuoka, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number11‐30‐0]

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Horikiri Iris Garden

The iris garden in Horikiri of Tokyo. This garden was famous for irises, and has been photographed from various angles. Two young girls and a man wearing a half coat stand in the background.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number9‐47‐0]

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Harvesting millet

Stereograph produced by Underwood & Underwood Co. The inscription on the back states that the photograph was taken a few miles north of Yokohama. A telegraph pole is visible on the right. Copyright 1904.==Date:1904, Place:Yokohama, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐89‐0]

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A farmer in a straw raincoat,with a straw cap

A man wearing a bamboo hat and straw raincoat is holding a hoe. Barefoot, he is probably in the middle of farm work. This kind of hoe was usually used in vegetable fields.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐66‐0]

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Imaichi,the Nikko Road

Although said to depict Imaichi on the Nikko Highway, the photograph does show a scene of the cedar-lined highway. Some cedar trees are visible in the centre, but it is difficult to tell whether they are a part of the highway. The rice has already been harvested, and irrigation ditches are visible next to the fields. Deciduous trees stand in the yard of a farm house. A serene farming village scene.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:Usui Shuzaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number94‐4‐0]

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A peony garden

Women enjoy the peony flowers at Maruyama. The peony garden is enclosed with a bamboo structure. There are lights hanging from the centre of the ceiling. The roof seems to be made of glass as soft light is flooding from them. Red, blue, and pink peony flowers are in bloom.==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number85‐24‐0]

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A farmer carrying fertilizer tubs,wearing a straw raincoat and cap

A man is carrying water pails with a balancing pole. He is wearing a bamboo hat and a straw raincoat. These pails may contain water, but since they are somewhat slender and deep they may contain fertilizer instead.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number79‐49‐0]

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Women mowing a lawn

This is a business-card-sized photograph, one of a set produced by Farsari & Co., depicting three country women carrying crops on their back.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number64‐25‐0]

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A farmer

A man wearing a straw raincoat and holding a bamboo hat carries a hoe with radishes hanging from it. He may be a farmer on his way home. He has a tobacco pipe in his mouth. The pail may have held his lunch.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number61‐6‐0]

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A view of Yamate, Kobe

The hill on the left is Ujinoyama, the area from present-day Nakayamate Dori 6- and 7-chome to Yamamoto Dori 5-chome in Chuo Ward, probably taken sometime in the first half of the Meiji Period. Although part of a mixed-residence area outside the foreign settlement, this section to the west contained some Western-style buildings. Yet to be reforested, the Rokko Mountain Range looks desolate.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number56‐31‐0]

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Mt. Fuji from a train window

A photo taken under the same circumstances as photo numbered 46-144.==Date:unknown, Place:Fuji, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number46‐145‐0]

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Mt. Fuji from a train window

The photographer who got on the train from the station in the photo numbered 46-141 was shooting away while enjoying the changing Japanese landscape from the window. A typical Japanese landscape with a paddy and Mt. Fuji beyond.==Date:unknown, Place:Fuji, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number46‐144‐0]

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Tea picking

Five tea-picking women with bamboo baskets and many children and mothers are photographed. The baskets are almost empty. The date of the photo is mid-Meiji. The location is unknown.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number43‐11‐0]

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Great Nobi Earthquake (exposed strata at Neomura Midoridani)

Nobi earthquake took place at 6:37 on October 28, 1891, with the area near Midori of Neo village of Gifu prefecture as the seismic center. It was an enormous earthquake with a magnitude of 8. An approximately 3 meter high dislocation was formed for about 100km at Neoya. This dislocation was designated as a precious natural product in 1952.==Date:unknown, Place:Gifu, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number39‐18‐0]

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Great Nobi Earthquake (inundation of Tenjindo Shrine at Neomura)

Tenjindo is about 5 km upper stream from Midori. According to the caption in the photo, it sunk 30 feet from the usual level. Collapsed houses and families watching them. This sort of scene was seen everywhere. The disaster in Neoya was 675 houses destroyed out of 715, and 142 dead from a population of 3,346, and 290 wounded.==Date:unknown, Place:Gifu, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number39‐21‐0]

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Great Nobi Earthquake (exposed strata at Neodani Kinbara)

The slope of the mountain on the opposite side has collapsed, and the paddy field before harvest has been gouged. The Gifu Hibi dated November 5 reports that The paddy fields have either sunk or have been ripped open, so with the ground uneven, water cannot be kept, without hope for next years rice crops.==Date:unknown, Place:Gifu, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number39‐16‐0]

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Odawara Castle

The west corner turret of Odawara castle, just before it was demolished at the end of 1870. A picture from the December 1, 1871 edition of The Far East . The moat is made into a agricultural field to support the samurai of the clan who were deprived of their salaries due to the Meiji government takeover.==Date:unknown, Place:Odawara, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number24‐21‐0]

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Laborer wearing mino,a straw raincoat

Carried on page 247 of the February 24, 1873 edition of The Far East. The explanation says that the mino is important in Japan for both decorative and practical reasons. Farmers, fishermen and government officials wear them, and the price for one is one mon , or approximately 1 British shilling. The waraji (sandals) cost one and a half pennies a pair.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number17‐53‐0]

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Working in the field

A picture from the August 6, 1871 edition of The Far East , page 2. Entitled A Japanese Woman Working on a Farm . A woman from the countryside employed by a rich farmer lives in the house with meals and earns about 2-3 pounds a year .==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number17‐38‐0]

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A view of the city of Onomichi

Mt. Jododera is seen from Mukoujima and Tomihama Beach on the south side of Onomichi Suido. Jododera Temple and Kairyu Temple are visible at the foot of the mountain. A man balancing a pole with containers of fertilizer on his shoulder and a mother and children are visible in the foreground.==Date:unknown, Place:Onomichi, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number9‐39‐0]

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Farmhouse at miyagino

Farm houses existed in Miyagino in the Meiji era in Ko, Kami, Sotokubo and Azuma, but since flat land was scarce in Ko and Kami, this photo is thought to be Sotokubo or Azuma (perhaps near the present Jonai Senior High School branch school) from the background. The laundry, agricultural products, farming tools and dress suggest that this farm was run by a small-scale land-owning farmer.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number7‐24‐0]

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Honmoku Point seen from the Fudozaka slope

The caption reads Mississippi Bay near Yokohama in English. It is a view of Negishi village from Fudosaka. To the right is Mississippi Bay (presently Negishi Bay) with Honmoku Cape in the distance. Thatch-roofed houses and a well-cultivated field can be seen in the village.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number4‐22‐0]