[明治期琉球写真帳 2] / Meiji Era Ryūkyū Photo Album 2

This album consists of two photo books, both of which contain miscellaneous images of Okinawan landscape, customs, people, renowned spots of historical remains, and flora and fauna of this region. Speculating about the objects focused in these photos, they were not taken by the inhabitants but the people who were traveling in Okinawa from mainland Japan. The taking dates of these photos are obscured. Since the photo of the intact Chūzan Gate, which was destroyed in 1908 had been taken, these photos dated back to the mid-Meiji era. It also includes rare photos of several oarsmen posing for photographers in a haarii boat before the traditional boat race in Itoman and a ritual being held at the Kume Kōshibyō (Confucius Temple) in Naha. All photos in this album were entitled by our librarians:
1 [Meiji Bridge] 2 [left:Shureimon, the second outer gate of Shuri Castle; right:Kankaimon, the front gate to Shuri Castle] 3 [Ayajōufu and Chuzanmon, the first outer gate to Shuri Castle] 4 [Cemetery] 5 [a kamekō (turtleback) tomb] 6 [Kuba trees (Areca catechu)] 7 [Gajumaru trees] 8 [upper: Nakagusuku Castle Ruins; below: View of Engaku-ji from Tennyo-bashi Bridge] 9 [Sekiten 1, ceremony performed to honor Confucius] 10 [upper: A view of town 1; below: A view of town 2] 11 [offerings for Sekiten ceremony] 12 [sugar squeeze machine] 13 [Sekiten 2] 14 [Make sugar from sugarcane] 15 [Sonohyan-utaki Ishimon (Stone Gate of the Sonohyan Shrine)] 16 [left: Musaceae (hardy banana) or Pineapple; right: Iriomoteran, Orchid discovered in Iriomote island of Ryukyu] 17 [Garden] 18 [Stone gate of Sōgen-ji] 19 [A woman in Ryusō (traditional Ryukyu kimono)] 20 [upper: Normal School; below: Enkanchi at Shuri Castle] 21 [group photo of students] 22 [upper: sugarcane filed; below: Cycad Palm (Sotetsu) and a man] 23 [Enkaku Temple] 24 [Habu snake catching] 25 [left: butterfly; right: Yonaguni habitat butterfly specimen] 26 [upper:houses and a telegragh-pole; below: thatched sheds and a man ] 27 [ Adan (Pandanus) ] 28 [upper:snake specimen; below: lizard specimen] 29 [upper: preserved starfish; below: preserved sea urchin] 30 [left: butterfly specimen 1; right: butterfly specimen 2] 31 [Mangrove swamps] 32 [Adan (Pandanus)] 33 [Erythrina Variegata (tiger claw)] 34 [Roof tiled wood houses and yard] 35 [The harvesting of sugarcane] 36 [A man standing under a tree] 37 [View of Nakagusuku castle from Ryūtan] 38 [Gajumaru trees]