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Famous scenes in Japan

These pictures are taken by photographer TAMAMURA Kozaburo and his disciple TAKAGI Teijiro as a black and white photo and colored by hand during the Meiji era and Taisho era.

Famous scenes in Japan

CHERRY BLOSSOM AVENUE AT MUKOJIMA

Famous scenes in Japan

THE CHERRY BLOSSOM AT YOKOHAMA

Famous scenes in Japan

WISTARIA ARBOUR

Famous scenes in Japan

IRIS GARDEN AT YOKOHAMA

Famous scenes in Japan

THE CHRYSANTHEMUM GARDEN

Famous scenes in Japan

CASTLE AT TOKYO

Famous scenes in Japan

THE TEA HOUSE AT OJI, TOKYO

Famous scenes in Japan

A PRIVATE GARDEN AT TOKYO

Famous scenes in Japan

THE CHERRY BLOOMS AT THE RETURN OF SPRING

Famous scenes in Japan

Famous scenes in Japan

SHIBA TEMPLE AT TOKYO

Famous scenes in Japan

IKEGAMI, THE INTERIOR OF BUDDIST TEMPLE NEAR TOKYO

Famous scenes in Japan

THE FARES THAT RIKISHAMEN LIKE TO DRAW

Famous scenes in Japan

IMAICHI, THE ROAD TO NIKKO

Famous scenes in Japan

THE SACRED BRIDGE NIKKO

See Also

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For remembrance : sixty views of sights and scenes in unique Japan
Saigoku 33 sho junrei gakan (A picture album of the thirty-three pilgrimage places of the Western Provinces)
Famous scenes in Japan
Mt. Fuji
Musashi Hyakkei (One Hundred Views of Musashi) by KOBAYASHI Kiyochika
Famous Places of the Sixty Provinces
Fuji hyaku shokei (100 fine views of Mt. Fuji)
Keiraku tokorodokoro (Various places in Kyoto)
Tokai Meisho Kaisei Gojusan Eki (Famous Places in Tokai – The Revised Fifty-Three Stations)
KOBAYASHI Kiyochika’s Kosen-ga
Shokoku Meisho Hyakkei (One Hundred Views of Famous Places in the Provinces)
Landscape prints by TAKAHASHI Shotei
The Tokyo nightscape as seen in the Kosenga of Inoue Yasuji’s Tokyo meisho
Meisho Edo Hyakkei (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo)
Fugaku Hyakkei (One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji) by KATSUSHIKA Hokusai
Tokyo Meisho-e (Tokyo landscapes) by INOUE Yasuji
Shin-hanga of KAWASE Hasui
Tokaido meisho fukei (Famous Views of Tokaido Road)
Cherry blossoms in Kyoto depicted in nishiki-e

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