Japanese Old Photographs of the Bakumatsu-Meiji Periods

http://oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/en/

"Japanese Old Photographs of the Bakumatsu-Meiji Periods" at the University of Nagasaki Library is the largest collection of old photographs, approximately 6,000, taken all over Japan from the Bakumatsu through to the Meiji period.

Funded by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, the University of Nagasaki Library built the website, "Japanese Old Photographs of the Bakumatsu-Meiji Period", in 1997-1998; and the website, "High-definition Image Database of Old Photographs of Japan" in 2001-2002. The sites are open to the public and accessed by people with different interests from all over the world.