Ryogoku Hanabi - Fireworks at Ryogoku bridge, Yedo

Ryogoku Hanabi - Fireworks at Ryogoku bridge, Yedo

Utagawa Hiroshige print of Ryogoku Hanabi- Fireworks at Ryogoku bridge, Yedo from the 'One-Hundred Famous Views of Edo' series.

Hiroshige - 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Print 4

Hiroshige - 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Print 4

4 Kanagawa - View of a street along the top of a cliff overlooking Yedo Bay, and female touts trying to drag travellers into the resthouses. This station was on a cliff overlooking a magnificent seascape of Edo Bay. One side of the highway was lined with two storied teahouses which commanded views of the beautiful bay.The land has been reclaimed from the bay seen in the picture and now forms a part of Yokohama City. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858). The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido - Hoeido edition (1831-4) Date: 1831 - 1834

EMPEROR MEIJI

EMPEROR MEIJI

When Shogun Keiki abdicates, civil war breaks out, but the emperor Meiji is able to seize control and makes a triumphal entry into Yedo (Tokyo). Now Japan starts to modernise. Date: 1868

The gate to Takanawa Tozenji Temple,the British Legation

The gate to Takanawa Tozenji Temple,the British Legation

This stereograph bears the caption View taken from the United States Legation, at Yedo and is said to depict Tempukuji Temple in Azabu, but this is incorrect. The temple is actually Tozenji, located in present-day Takanawa 3-chome. The Shogunate concluded a treaty pact with Great Britain (Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce) in 1858, and Tozenji Temple was designated as the site of the British Legation. This was taken by Swiss Pierre Rossier at the end of the Edo Period. This is a side view of the sanmon gate, also seen in photographs #3420 and #3443.==Date:1859, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Pierre Rossier, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number70‐7‐0]