Tokyo Collection (#10)

Tokyo Earthquake, Japan 1923 (5 / 9)
Tokyo Earthquake, Japan 1st September 1923 - the earthquake and typhoon killed an estimated 99, 300 people Date: 1923

Tokyo Earthquake, Japan 1923 (3 / 9)
Tokyo Earthquake, Japan 1st September 1923 - the earthquake and typhoon killed an estimated 99, 300 people. The Metropolitan Police Department burning at Maranouchi near Hibiya Park. Date: 1923

Tokyo Earthquake, Japan 1923 (6 / 9)
Tokyo Earthquake, Japan 1st September 1923 - the earthquake and typhoon killed an estimated 99, 300 people Date: 1923

Japanese Children in a Tokyo Park, Japan Date: 1908

Tokyo Street Scene
An early view of one of Tokyos principal thorough- -fares, home to daimios (officials) : later it will house the Foreign Office and War Department. Date: early 19th century

Kabukiza (Great Tokyo) - Japan Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Asakusa Luna Park, Tokyo - the park was designed to mimic the original Luna Park that was built in Brooklyn, New York in 1903. Date: circa 1920

Cherry Blossom - Mukojima, Tokyo, Japan

Shimbashi Street, Tokyo, Japan

Celebration of the fall of Port Arthur
Japanese businessmen celebrate the Fall of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War at Hibya Park, Tokyo. The Russians surrendered Port Arthur to the Japanese after nearly a years siege

1957 nuclear test: Student protest in Japan
Tokyo, Japan: a small group of Japanese students, entirely surrounded by police, demonstrating against the British nuclear tests

Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Japan
Outside of Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Japan. The huge wall goes round the whole Palace grounds with a moat (inner moat) - there is a second or outer moat which is some further distance back

Lt. -Colonel Jimmy Doolittle on the deck of the Hornet; Sec
Photograph showing Lt.-Colonel Jimmy Doolittle attaching a Japanese medal to the fin of a 500-lb. bomb on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Hornet in April 1942

Yedo Tokyo Palace
The Imperial Palace at Iedo (Yedo) now Tokyo

Japan / Tokyo / Asakusa
A street scene in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan, showing women with parasols and colourful advertising banners

Social / Tokyo Shop C1860
Tokyo: a street near an apothecarys shop at Yeddo (Tokyo)

Tokyo / Ginza-Dori 1922
Tokyo: Ginza-Dori street scene

Tokyo / Street Scene 1858
Tokyo: a street in the aristocratic quarter

Japan Tokyo
Bird s-eye view showing the Imperial Palace

Japan Odawara
A picturesque village near Tokyo, seen from Tokai-do

Tokyo Earthquake 1923
The citizens of Tokyo flee in terror as most of their city is destroyed by the Great Kanto earthquake : more than 140, 000 people will lose their lives as a result

Ogano Garden, Nagishi, Tokyo
Japanese women in Ogano Garden, Nagishi, Tokyo

Wisteria at Kameido, Tokyo, Japan

Iris flowers at Horikiri, Tokyo, Japan

Theatre Fire / Tokyo / 1905
A fire at the Chikichima Theatre, Tokyo

Mukojima, Tokyo
Japanese cherry blossom in Mukojima Tokyo Japan

Japanese Official
A Japanese official from Yedo (Tokyo) in his town dress

Japanese Woman
A Japanese woman from Yedo (Tokyo) in her town dress

Japan : Elgin Mission 2
Lord Elgins diplomatic mission to Japan : the British diplomats visit a tea garden in Yedo (Tokyo)

Japan : Elgin Mission 1
The house in Yedo (Tokyo) occupied by Lord Elgin during his diplomatic mission to Japan

Spacious Tokyo Street
A birds eye view of Hiokoji in Ueno, Tokyo

Japan / Honshu Bridge 1976
Japanese woman on a bridge, with the Keo Plaza Hotel, Tokyo, in the background. Date: 1976

First Japanese Railway
The opening, on Wednesday 12 June at Yeddo (now Tokyo), of the railway which connects that city with Yokohama

Amy Johnson / Tokyo / 1931
Amy Johnson, pioneer British aviator who made several record flights - seen here arriving in Tokyo in 1931

Social / Tokyo Night 18C
Night fete at Yedo (Tokyo) - girls in boats arrive to join the revellers

Social / Tokyo Fete 18C
Night fete at Yedo (Tokyo) - ladies and their children go to join the revellers, one carrying a lantern

Americans Land / Japan
Americans triumphant, land on Japanese soil near Tokyo

Games / Outdoor / Japan 19C
Japanese children at play in Ueno Park, Tokyo

Tokyo / Kyobashi 1923
Tokyo: Kyobashi street scene

Tokyo / Ginza 1923
Tokyo: Ginza, in the new quarter

Tokyo / Yoroibashi C1902
Tokyo: Yoroibashi street scene

Japan / Constitution / 1889
Promulgation of the New Japanese constitution by Emperor Meiji of Japan at Tokyo

Public Bath / Yeddo 1862
Men and women in a Japanese bath house at Yeddo (Tokyo)

Tokyo Earthquake 1650
The population in and around Tokyo are thrown into despair when an earthquake devastates the region and the sacred mountain Fujiyama erupts

Earthquake in Japan 1923
Over 140, 000 people lose their lives when a great earthquake (the Great Kanto Earthquake) devastes South East Japan including the cities of Tokyo and Yokohama

Imperial Palace, Tokyo
The Imperial Palace in Tokyo

Emperor Meiji
When Shogun Keiki abdicates, civil war breaks out, but the emperor Meiji is able to seize control and makes a triumphal entry into Yedo (Tokyo). Now Japan starts to modernise

Japanese Parliament
Officials putting up name signs in the Japanese Houses of Parliament, Tokyo, Japan

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