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meijishowa images add accuracy, authencity and visualization to your documentary, TV program or news feature.
meijishowa images add accuracy, authencity and visualization to your documentary, TV program or news feature.
The high quality scans of meijishowa's museum-quality vintage images are a dependable choice for exhibitions and presentations. Some of the world's top museums, and many government organizations, work with us.
Use our images to illustrate your article or book and tell your story better. Many also make striking book and magazine covers.
Use a single image to cover a whole wall, or combine images to tell a story and create a mood. Perfect for restaurants, hotels and offices, but also private homes.
Tell a story and increase sales by adding meijishowa images to your videos, print ads and other marketing materials. License images for your packaging, or to print on your products.
Textbooks, presentations, classes, archives, online resources, there is no end to how meijishowa images can add value to your educational program.
High quality scans of original museum-quality vintage photos, advertising flyers, postcards, maps, money, and more.
Most images in meijishowa's unique collection have been specifically selected and curated to show daily life in old Japan.
Each image has been professionally scanned and digitally mastered to bring out the colors and details of the orginal.
Need a print to cover a whole wall? No problem! Because we own most of the original images, we can re-scan them at any size.
Our carefully researched captions help you find relevant images that won't turn out to be something else than described.
We are a very small privately owned boutique photo agency. You always deal with the same well-informed and real person.
You can see, search and browse meijishowa images without registration or approval. Start selecting images instantly.
meijishowa offers you distinct and diverse views of old Japan: work by celebrated professional photographers, snap shots from anonymous family albums, news photos, advertising, art, maps.
Find images quickly: search by keyword, theme, place, period, decade, artist, tag, or any combination of these search methods.
People at work, students in their classroom, prostitutes posing for clients. meijishowa offers you an astounding collection of images showing everyday life in old Japan.
Boutique photo agency for vintage photographs, art and prints, and maps of Japan between the 1860s and 1930s (Meiji, Taisho, early Showa).
Use meijishowa images for news, documentaries, articles, books, advertising, exhibits, and more.
CURATED PRIVATE COLLECTION — Many of our images are extremely rare and can often not be licensed anywhere else.
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