Amazing Hand-Coloured Photographs of Old Japan

For over 200 years, Japan had kept its borders closed against the outside world. When they finally began to open them, an amazing transformation had taken place. These amazing hand-coloured photographs, taken by Adolfo Farsari, give us a history lesson about what life was like in the late 1800's to early 1900's.

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  1886-1914

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  1886-1903

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  1886-1904

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  1886-1907

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  1886-1915

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  1886-1902

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  1886-1909 Many more here.