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  2. The Top 100 Historical Persons in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Top 100 Historical Persons (超大型歴史アカデミー史上初1億3000万人が選ぶニッポン人が好きな偉人ベスト100発表 [1] in Japanese), aired on Nippon Television on May 7, 2006. The program featured the results of a survey that asked Japanese people to choose their favorite great person from history. The show ...

  3. Photography in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Yokohama-shashin showed Japanese scenery, Japanese people (especially Japanese women) and Japanese culture. These images were very widely used as souvenirs, especially among foreigners. Among photographers for Yokohama-shashin, Felix Beato and Kusakabe Kimbei (1841–1934, 日下部金兵衛) were very famous. Country Children. Hand-coloured ...

  4. The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Wikipedia

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    Plate used to print ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e is a Japanese printmaking technique which flourished in the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of subjects including female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; Japanese flora and fauna; and erotica.

  5. List of photographs considered the most important - Wikipedia

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    Nagasaki, Japan Unknown [s 2] [s 3] [s 5] V-J Day in Times Square: 14 August 1945 Alfred Eisenstaedt (pictured: same event taken by Victor Jorgensen) New York City, United States 35 mm The photograph depicts a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger on Victory over Japan Day. [48] [s 3] [s 4] [s 6] Hiroshima, Three Weeks After ...

  6. 50 Interesting Historical Photographs That Might Teach You ...

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    However, until the advent of photography in 1826–27, people had to settle on seeing such images through the eyes of the artists who painted them, which might have been not entirely accurate. #10 ...

  7. Category:Images of Japanese people - Wikipedia

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    View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; ... Media in category "Images of Japanese people" The following 3 files are in ...

  8. Hokusai - Wikipedia

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    Hokusai also changed the subjects of his works, moving away from the images of courtesans and actors that were the traditional subjects of ukiyo-e. Instead, his work became focused on landscapes and images of the daily life of Japanese people from a variety of social levels. This change of subject was a breakthrough in ukiyo-e and in Hokusai's ...

  9. Kusakabe Kimbei - Wikipedia

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    Kusakabe Kimbei (日下部 金兵衛; 1841–1934) was a Japanese photographer. He usually went by his given name, Kimbei, because his clientele, mostly non- Japanese-speaking foreign residents and visitors, found it easier to pronounce than his family name.