The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum premiered its “Travel Nippon” photography exhibition on December 2. The exhibition features some 40 pioneering photographs of life in Japan from the end of the Tokugawa shogunate to the emerging Meiji Period in the latter half of the 19th to the early 20th century.
The works were taken by both Japanese and foreign photographers of the day and are now being preserved by TFAM as part of its extensive photography library.
Due to the use of large photographic plates at the time, the works reveal extraordinary clarity of even distant objects, providing a fascinating glimpse into a people and culture in transition from the old to the modern.
