H E Bottlewalla
Untitled [Assorted photographs from the album Scenic Japan: the Beauties of the Far East]
a) Front: MARUYAMA PARK, (With its lovely walks and wooden groves is the resort of pleasure-seekers in summer, and adds not a little to the beauty of the city.) KYOTO KIYOMIDZU-DERA, (A temple most exquisitely situated to the east of the city, and well worth a visit on account of its old and interesting relics.) KYOTO A CORNER OF NARA PARK, (With its graceful pagoda, beautifully...
a) Front: MARUYAMA PARK, (With its lovely walks and wooden groves is the resort of pleasure-seekers in summer, and adds not a little to the beauty of the city.) KYOTO KIYOMIDZU-DERA, (A temple most exquisitely situated to the east of the city, and well worth a visit on account of its old and interesting relics.) KYOTO A CORNER OF NARA PARK, (With its graceful pagoda, beautifully situated tea-houses, and a silent sheet of water where the legendary maiden in love with the Mikado drowned herself.) NARA YAAMI'S HOTEL, (Is very splendidly situated on the side of a hill and overlooks the whole city.) KYOTO MEGANE-BASHI, (A bridge near the grounds of Higasi Otani temple, so called from the similarity of its graceful circular arches to a pair of spectacles.) KYOTO CHIONIN, (Noted for its enormous bell weighing 75 tons, the largest in Japan, and second only in the world to the bell at Kremlin in Moscow.) KYOTO NANKO TEMPLE, (This temple is worth a visit in the evening, when the grounds are thronged by a gay crowd of pleasure-seekers attired in all the colours of rainbow.) KOBE MINATOGAWA, (A generally dry river, separates the towns of Kobe and Hiogo, and is easily distinguished by the large number of tea houses and pine trees along its banks.) KOBE THE PIER, (Thirty years ago Kobe was a small fishing village. At present is a port of Japan, and our illustration shows what an active, bustling place it is.) KOBE THE THEATRE STREET, (A purely Oriental bit of Kobe, with its surging tide of humanity, opposite the temple at Nanko.) KOBE THE JAPANESE AT HOME, (Reading the story of the love of Ozawa Sabuno-goro.) MISS SNOW THE JAPANESE AT HOME, (At their little dinner of rice, raw fish and radish.) NAGOYA THE JAPANESE AT HOME, (The blind Shampooer and her client.) MISS PLUM PROGRESSIVE JAPAN, (The first-class battleship of the "Majestic" type shown in our illustration is an indication of the serious purpose the Japanese have set before them.) YASHIMA KAN THE BUND, (The sight that first meets the eye of a visitor after most probably a stormy voyage across the North Pacific.) YOKO-HAMA STATION, (This terminus of the Tokaido railway is an unassuming edifice, but the jostling crowd on its platforms with the clatter of a thousand sandals never fails to interest a foreigner.) YOKO-HAMA CASTLE, (The traveller in Japan often notices pagoda-like structures lording it over the surrounding country. These are citadels of old feudal castles, now mostly neglected and fast decaying.) OKA-YAMA BIRDS-EYE-VIEW, (The great military station which sent forth its braves to conquer Cathay, appears like a landscape garden when seen from an elevation.) HIRO-SHIMA CAVE, (About five hundred feet long, and the best of its kind, with shrines of Benten, the Japanese Venus.) ENO-SHIMA FUJI YAMA, (This "Peerless Mountain" is an extinct volcano; and is capped with snow throughout the year except a few days in August, when pilgrims attempt its heights to enjoy the grand panorama from the top.) OMIYA GARDEN, (Of all the landscape gardens in Japan, the one illustrated here is supposed to be the best.) OKA-YAMA ASAHIGAWA, (The lingering meanders in which the river glides are a Japanese copy of the tortnous river which fertilizes the vale of Cashmere.) OKA-YAMA MINO WATERFALL, (In autumn the valley of Mino Presents a grand sight when the maple trees are a glorious blaze of red and crimson. The waterfall adds not a little to the beauty of the enchanting view.) OSAKA NARA PARK, (With its picturesque shrines, stone lanterns, and dappled white-haunched deer, its stately groves of forest trees, and avenues lined with cryptomerias, is the finest of its kind in Japan.) NARA ISEZAKI-CHO, (A very interest street, of cheap bazaars and toy-shops, and might rightly be called the Eighth Avenue of Yokohama.) YOKO-HAMA ENOSHIMA, (A picturesque little island with delightful "lover's walks" and concerned with the mainland by a flimsy wooden bridge.) YOKO-HAMA ANOTHER VIEW OF FUJI, (This illustration represents clearly the majestic contour, and shapely curves of Fuji, the Parthenon of Volcanoes, and the pride of Dai Nippon.) FUJI-KAWA SHIRAITO WATER FALLS, ("It is lovely" "Nothing in the world can beat it" are generally the ejaculations of the travellers when they visit these falls.) SHIZU-OKA GINKAKUJI, (A temple with its silver pavilion, and precious kakemonos, which generally draws visitors on account of its particularly well kept garden.) KYOTO MODERN TOKYO, (The splendid structures in our illustration show that the Capital of Japan can now boast comparison, in point of architectural embellishments, with any European town. TOKYO UENO PARK, (Tokyo is never so beautiful as in Cherry blossom season. when it sparks, with their cool orchards and shady groves blossom forth in a lovely pink and red. TOKYO ASAKUSA PAGODA, (The grounds in the vicinity contain cheap theatres, booths of jugglers and penny gaffs which tempts the lower class holidays-makers, year in year out, summer winter.) TOKYO MIHASHI, ("The sacred red lacquer bridge is a beautiful object in the landscape from its exquisite curve.") NIKKO DAIYAGAWA, (This fierce mountain river adds largely to the beauty of Nikko.) NIKKO UEMON TEMPLE, (Nikko contains the ashes of three of the greatest Shoguns; our photograph represents the entrance gate of the shrine of Iyeyasu. NIKKO A SHRINE, (The shrines of great warriors and heroes in Japan are generally situated in a dense wood of cryptomerias and other majestic forest trees.) NIKKO KIRIFURI, (The twin waterfalls shown in our illustration may be regarded as the prettiest in Japan.) NIKKO CHIUZENJI, (The Chiuzenji lake stands second only to Lake Biwa, and the visitor to Nikko should never fail to visit it. NIKKO "MATSURI", (This illustration gives a good idea of what a festival procession in Japan means, when a miniature temple on wheels drawn by grotesque figures forms an indispensable item in the programme.) KOBE RINNOJI TEMPLE GARDEN, (In its own quaint style, the garden is as picturesque as can be imagined. NIKKO HANIYA, (One of the many water-falls for which Nikko is noted.) NIKKO TOSHOGU PAGODA, (The graceful symmetry of a Japanese pagoda nestled in a grove of pines and bamboos is not an unfamiliar sight in Japan.) NIKKO UEMON TEMPLE, (The main building of the temple is really very splendid and gushers of the type of Sir Edwin Arnold have gone into ecstasy over it.) NIKKO THE GINZA, (It is the Oxford Street of Tokyo, with its interesting bazaars and shops selling foregn goods, carios and knick knacks generally.) TOKYO BIRDS-EYE-VIEW, (Showing the harbour and the road connecting the native town with the Bluff where foreigners reside.) KOBE THE BUND, (To the left hand side of our illustration are noticeable the buildings of the Hong-Kong and Shanghai Bank, and the various consulated, while to the right is a narrow strip of green patronized by idlers in summer.) KOBE BIRD'S-EYE-VIEW, (Osaka may be rightly described as the commercial capital of Japan, and is often compared to Manchester, being the principal centre of mill industry.) OSAKA
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H E Bottlewalla Untitled [Assorted photographs from the album Scenic Japan: the Beauties of the Far East]
An elaborate collection of loose photographs, originally from the album Scenic Japan: the beauties of the Far East prepared under the supervision of amateur photographer H.E. Bottlewalla in the neighborhood of Kobe, Yokohama, Hiroshima, etc., mounted back-to-back on 25 cards, each captioned in English.
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