Once in Japan - professions
The photographs presented below were taken in the so -called Meiji era, which covers the period since 1848, when the first camera was brought to Japan and ending with the moment of the death of Emperor Meji in 1912. In 1996, a large book of photos was published in the UK ( Old Japanese Photographs Colleectors' Data Guide , London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 2006, © Terry Bennett), or, as they are called, with characters and scenes from the Japanese life of that period.