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Read this article on the site | Comment on this article “If we didn’t all smoke a pipe, if it were not for tobacco, we would never get along together.” Those were the words of Japanese potter, ceramicist, and former Living National Treasure Sakaida Kakiemon XIV
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A Japanese farmer holds a kiseru (煙管). The tiny pipe offered only two to three puffs, yet it reigned for over three centuries.
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A woman paints the face of a boy who lost in the card game of karuta. Photographer Teijiro Takagi shot this scene in Kobe in 1906 for a photo book about…
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A rare early photograph of Dejima, the fan-shaped artificial island in Nagasaki. Dejima played a critical—but now largely forgotten—role in the opening…
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A studio photo of maiko posing in front of the portable street stand of a singing insect vendor. Vendors sold a variety of insects changing with each…
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A Japanese bride arrives at the groom’s house. Photographer Teijiro Takagi published this scene in 1905 (Meiji 38) in a photo book about Japanese…
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A Japanese family poses stoically to “celebrate” a male family member being sent off to war during the late 1930s, or early 1940s. The banners bear his…
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The game that these two young women are playing was once the most popular game in Japan, known by all. Now few people have even heard of its name.
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