Japan Archery

Archery, Japan, ca.1860-1900

nedhardy

Old Japan

Long Haired Beauty of Old Japan -- The Transformation of a Geisha from East to West, Ca 1905 Meiji-era Portrait of a Japanese girl.

flickr | Okinawa Soba

Old Japan

Old Photos of Japan: Family in Formal Wear 1910s

Source: oldphotosjapan

Katsuraningyo

Vintage Katsuraningyo dolls from Japan, 1950-1960 

Source: flickr

Vintage Postcard

A group of Maiko (Apprentice Geisha) standing on the riverbank. Maiko Momotaro is third from the left, facing Maiko Fumiryu. This postcard dates to the late 1910s or early 1920s

Source: flickr

Vintage Postcard

At the Phone, Old Japan, 1920

Source: flickr | Casas-Rodríguez Collection

Old Japan

 Old Japan, from an old pre-WW2 album in Japan. 

 Source: flickr

Japan

Stereo photographs of Japan, c.1895-1910: 

Chris Wild

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Vintage Film

Our Neighbor, Miss Yae (Shimazu, 1934)

Our Neighbor, Miss Yae (Shimazu, 1934) is a delightful comedy/drama about the friendship between two neighboring families set in contemporary suburban Japan. The plot concerns a love triangle between a law student who “looks like Frederic March” and the two sisters next door, one of whom is newly separated from her husband. In a lot of ways, this feels like the most modern (and westernized) Japanese movie of its era – the characters play baseball, watch a Betty Boop cartoon and engage in hilarious, flirtatious banter. The exchanges between the law student and the younger sister in particular (the Miss Yae of the title) are highly memorable and infectiously fun.

Source: michaelgloversmith | ebay

Vintage Photo

Vintage Asian Family in Brazil from Japan 1928

Source: wikimedia | Nossa Histoia

Vintage Photo

The Dancer O-Ren (1920), “The dancer O-Ren.” Photo caption translated from the German.
 From an article by Maria Piper, entitled “Gattin oder Geisha, herrenfeste und tänzerinnen, impressionen aus dem heutigen Japan - Wife or Geisha, festivals and dancers, impressions of today’s Japan” in Westermanns Monatshefte, Band 146, II; Heft 875, published in 1929, pages 457-464.”

Source: flickr | okiya