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TitleAerial view of Kagoshima
Date Created1900-1920
DescriptionAerial view of Kagoshima city. Griffis's note in the back reads: "City of Kagoshima, capital of Satsuma. [Francis] Xavier first landed here 1543. Bombarded by the British in [1863]. 100,000...
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TitleA street in Fukui
Date Created1900-1920
DescriptionA street in Fukui. Griffis's note on the back reads: "Street in Otani's [?] birth place."
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TitleCherry blossoms at Sakae Shrine, Fukui
Date Created1900-1920
DescriptionCherry blossoms located at the Sakae Shrine (佐佳枝廼神社) in Fukui. Griffis's note on the back reads: "In spring, cherry blossoms time at Fukui--Otani's [?] delight."
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TitleDragon Spring, Fukui
Date Created1900-1920
DescriptionDragon Spring located in Fukui with a Buddhist monk. Grffis's note refers to it as "'Pool of Bethesda'--Healing Water."
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TitleFujishima Shrine, Fukui
Date Created1900-1920
DescriptionFamous places in Fukui: The Great Torii of Fujishima Shrine (藤島神社).
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TitleStreet scene (main highway), Fukui
Date Created1900
DescriptionView of a main street in Fukui, Japan in 1900. Griffis's note reads: "The average main street in an average inland city."
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TitleYokohama Foreign Cemetery
Date Created1870
DescriptionThe Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery was established in 1859 as a burial ground for foreigners who died in Japan. It is located in Yamate (山手; also known as "The Bluff"), overlooking the ocean....
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TitleSatsuma's factory, Kagoshima
Date Created1870-11-16
DescriptionThe Kagoshima factory was Japan's first European-style cotton spinning mill powered by steam engines constructed in 1857 by Shimazu Nariakira (島津斉彬), the daimyo of Satsuma domain. Of the...
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TitleKenjutsu (fencing) practice, Fukui
Date Created1900-1920
DescriptionStudents participating in Japanese fencing. Griffis's note reads: "It was in the Han school in Fukui that I first saw ju-jutsu and fencing in Japanese style."
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TitleInner moat at Fukui Castle
Date Created1900-1920
DescriptionThe old Fukui Castle (福井城) with a view of its moat. Griffis's note on the back reads: "Old castle and moats. Ramparts and towers removed and interior spaces since 1880 given up to mulberry...