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A group of female performers
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    • Date Created: 1909
    • Description: The woman on the right is holding a Shamisen, while the other women strike poses.
    • Parent Collections: A Tourist's Album of Japan, Album of Japanese Photographs


    A public park
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      • Date Created: 1909
      • Description: What appears to be the entrance to a public park. If you look closely, you can detect the mixing of cultures. Some men wear the traditional robe, but also don a western hat.
      • Parent Collections: A Tourist's Album of Japan, Album of Japanese Photographs


      A rural Samurai
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        • Date Created: 1909
        • Description: The Samurai in this picture is wearing a straw raincoat in addition to his swords and clothing.
        • Parent Collections: A Tourist's Album of Japan, Album of Japanese Photographs


        An elderly man getting his hair styled
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          • Date Created: 1909
          • Description: It looks as if the man is getting his hair pulled back into the traditional Samurai hairstyle of the top knot (Chonmage).
          • Parent Collections: A Tourist's Album of Japan, Album of Japanese Photographs


          Cherry blossom festival
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            • Date Created: 1909
            • Parent Collections: A Tourist's Album of Japan, Album of Japanese Photographs


            Cherry blossom festival in full swing
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              • Date Created: 1909
              • Parent Collections: A Tourist's Album of Japan, Album of Japanese Photographs


              Elderly man with a bow
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                • Date Created: 1909
                • Description: An elderly man is posing in a clan kimono with a "Yumi" (Bow) in his left hand. The bareness of his left arm suggests that the man is a practitioner of "Kyudo" (Japanese Zen Archery).
                • Parent Collections: A Tourist's Album of Japan, Album of Japanese Photographs


                Employees outside a tea house
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                  • Date Created: 1909
                  • Parent Collections: A Tourist's Album of Japan, Album of Japanese Photographs


                  Fan crafter with a customer
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                    • Date Created: 1909
                    • Description: There are two main types of fans in this man's shop. The folding fan - known as the "Sensu," and the hand fan - known as the "Uchiwa."
                    • Parent Collections: A Tourist's Album of Japan, Album of Japanese Photographs


                    Female musician with koto and Ōtsuzumi
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                      • Date Created: 1909
                      • Description: The instrument leaning against the wall behind the woman is a Koto. The drum she is holding and the one laying on the floor next to her are ≈åtsuzumi.
                      • Parent Collections: A Tourist's Album of Japan, Album of Japanese Photographs