Earlier this year the Kyoto Shimbun published this book of painted photographs of Kyoto: “Bakumatsu Ishin: Saishoku no Kyoto” (colorful Kyoto in the period around the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate and Meiji Restoration).
I happened to buy one on the second day after publication; there was a table set up outside the geisha dance theater during the spring dances. The book is page after page of great old hand-painted photos, and of course the real fun is in comparing then and now.
Here’s Nijo Castle and my picture from last year.
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Dave says:
Sep 17, 2004
What a great book. I hope they still have some eft when I get there.
nmsw says:
Dec 19, 2004
These photoes are very inpressive.
I’ve been to Nijo catsle once,and I was surprised it’s much larger,more beautiful than expected.
Dave says:
Jun 11, 2005
I went to Nijo-jo about 4 months ago. Man, what a large place! I would highly recomend it as a sight seeing stop. I spent about 4 hours there. I have soem pictures at http://www.japanish.org/gallery/album36?page=3.
Dave