View hand-colored photographs of the sights on a typical tour of late-19th-century Japan, reproduced here from a lush 10-volume set by Captain Frank Brinkley. Comments appear from travel books by “globetrotter” tourists of the time.
Brinkley’s Japan courtesy Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology © 2008 Visualizing Cultures
Brinkley’s Japan courtesy Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology © 2008 Visualizing Cultures