Personalities

Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures - National Diet Library


Illustrations of Japanese historical personalities

Database of pictures of Japanese historical personalities
Jinbutsu gazo database

Commemoration Postcards from the prewar period (1880s to 1940s) from my collection

Postcards of Japanese bronze statues from my collection



Places

Nippon in the World: historical pictures and photos from Edo and Osaka


Old Tokyo: historical pictures of Tokyo in the late 19th and early 20th century



Epochs

Prints of foreigners (Red-haired barbarians) in Nagasaki and Yokohama during the Edo-period (1600-1868)

Nagasaki University Old Pictures Database - Old Photographs from the Bakumatsu and Early Meiji period (ca. 1850-1910)

Photos taken by Felice Beato, Views of Japan, late Edo period and early Meiji period, 1863-1877 (New York Public Library)

Drawings from the Iwakura-Mission to the US and Europe (Database of Nichibunken, Kyoto)

Occupied Japan (1945-1952): A photo archive






Media

MIT Visualizing Cultures: John Dower's page with essays exploring woodblock prints depicting the arrival of Commodore Perry's Black Ships in Japan 1853/54, the history of Yokohama Treaty Port 1859-72, Japanese Westernization (1870s), woodblock prints and historical postcards from the Sino-Japanese and the Russo-Japanese Wars (1894/95 and 1904/05) as well as Felice Beato's photographys of early Meiji Japan (1860s).

Japan on historical picture postcards

My own collection of historical postcards

Japanese currency - photos of Japanese coins and bills from premodern times to the modern period

Ohara Institute for Social Research of Hosei University - Exhibition of Election Posters of Prewar Japan, mainly from the left side of the political spectrum


Art

e-Kokuho: National Treasures of the National Museum of Japan

Cultural Heritage Online (Bunka-cho, The Agency for Cultural Affiars)

Online Museum of Asian Art

Woodblock prints - Japan Print Gallery

Woodblock prints and lithographs - Artelino Gallery


Others

Virtual exhibition of Kyoto University Library

League of Nations Photo Archive (Indiana University)

News Video Site
Asahi World News Historical Film Archive (Kuradashi Eizokan)
You have to register for your first visit, after that you can see the videos online for free, download is not possible.

20th Century Movie Collection