“Kusakabe Kimbei (日下部 金兵衛) (1841 – 1934) was a Japanese photographer. He usually went by his given name, Kimbei, because his clientele, mostly non-Japanese-speaking foreign residents and visitors, found it easier to pronounce than his family name. Kusakabe Kimbei worked with Felice Beato and Baron Raimund von Stillfried as a photographic colourist and assistant before opening his own workshop in Yokohama in 1881 in the Benten-dōri quarter, and from 1889 operating in the Honmachi quarter. He also opened a branch in the Ginza quarter of Tokyo”. – Wikipedia

Greeting. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Cleaning Rice. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Great Hot Boiling Springs at Atam. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Actor. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Shinto Procession. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Execution Ground. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Dancing. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Coolie Smoking. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Female Musicians. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Geisha Playing Shamisen. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Fishing. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Freight Cart. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Girls Holding a Rope. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Dancing Party. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Girls Showing the Back Style. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Stripping Off Grains of Barley Through Frame. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Samurais in Armor. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Post Runner. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Ploughing Rice Ground. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Lantern Makers. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Group of Children. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Hair Dressing. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Iris Garden at Horikiri, Tokyo. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Jinrikishia. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Playing Koto and Shamisen. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Vegetables. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Wayside Resting Place. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Selling Flowers. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Preparing Rice. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Snow Costume. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Tea Party. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Woman Bathing. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Women Drinking Tea. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

Writing Letter. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)