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Japanese pleasure boat, 1873

Black-and-white photograph representing eight Japanese women and men, sitting and standing on a boat in the river with a landscape behind them.

View of a pleasure boat belonging to the Yumeiro teahouse. Eight Japanese people are on board, all wearing kimono or traditional attire. The Sumida River is at low tide and houses on the far shore can be seen in the distance. | Inscription: "A 'Yanni buni [yane bune] ' (Pleasure boat) Yedo [Tokyo]" in ink in block letters by Charles Longfellow. | Notes: Poem in Japanese - "Night rain at Karasaki" - on reverse (1008.002/001.001-003 #28). 1872-73 is given in an inscription elsewhere in the album. This boat appears also in Item #8 "View of Yumeiro teahouse." Yedo, or Edo, is a former name for Tokyo.

Archives Number: 1008.2/1.1-3#11

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Charles Appleton Longfellow Photographs (1008.002), (LONG-Subcollection)
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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Code: LONG

Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938

NPS Museum Number Catalog : LONG 27888

Charles Appleton Longfellow Papers (1008)

Title: Finding Aid to the Charles Appleton Longfellow (1844-1893) Papers, 1842-1996 (bulk dates: 1862-1891)
URL: https://www.nps.gov/long/learn/historyculture/archives.htm#CAL

2021-11-04

01/01/1873 - 12/30/1873

Photograph in Charles Appleton Longfellow Papers, Subcollection II. Photographic Materials, Albums, Albums Related to East Asia. (1008.002/001.001)

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Uchida Kuichi (1844-1875)

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