6,008 History of japan Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

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Kobushi ni mimizuku - Public domain scan of drawing

Print shows an owl perched on a magnolia tree branch; the magnolia blossoms are embossed. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Suri... More

[Tall, metal, ornate plant stands and figurine, all with dragon motif,...

From the "Metal work" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

The recent accident on the Mississippi Central Railroad / from a sketc...

Five illustrations: Accident on the Mississippi Central Railroad, near Oxford, Mississippi. Head-and-shoulders portraits of Lieut. Commander W.L. Stewart; Commander E.H. Williams; and Lieut. Commander A.W. Muld... More

Shokoku kokuō zu - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows several men and women, identified as the rulers of various countries around the world. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. F... More

Sarusubi [i.e., saru-suberi] monkey slip / Megata.

Drawing shows branch with buds, blossoms, and leaves of the crape myrtle tree, called saru-suberi or monkey slip because the bark is very smooth and slippery. From "Flowers" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 19... More

[Five petal red-on-white blossoms on stem above two three-leaf whorls]

Japanese text appears in upper right corner. From "Flowers" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Tōkyō shiodama tetsudō jōkisha tsūkō no zu

Japanese triptych print (one section only) showing a train at a train station with Japanese and foreign people in the foreground.

[Steam train], Utagawa Kuniteru - Ukiyo e print

Japanese triptych (incomplete) print showing several train cars with a pine tree overhanging them. Signature: Ichiyūsai Kuniteru. Seal date: Monkey. Single section of triptych, probably center. Section with ti... More

[Two Japanese women, full-length studio portrait with backdrop, standi...

No. 815. Illus. in: Views & costumes of Japan by Stillfried & Andersen. Yokohama : Stillfried & Andersen, [ca. 1877, p. 6] In 1877 Stillfried & Andersen purchased Felice Beato's stock of photographs, some may ... More

[Exterior view of fish market with several people, shoppers and mercha...

No. 1996. Illus. in: Views & costumes of Japan by Stillfried & Andersen. Yokohama : Stillfried & Andersen, [ca. 1877, p. 20] In 1877 Stillfried & Andersen purchased Felice Beato's stock of photographs, some ma... More

[Merchandise display]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

No. 847. Illus. in: Views & costumes of Japan by Stillfried & Andersen. Yokohama : Stillfried & Andersen, [ca. 1877, p. 21] In 1877 Stillfried & Andersen purchased Felice Beato's stock of photographs, some may... More

[A koto or Japanese zither] - Public domain drawing

Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Kano Nov. 1878. From the "Music" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawi... More

[Obstetrical hook and crochet] - Public domain drawing

Drawing shows two obstetrical instruments, one shown inside and outside its case has a hook on one end and a point at the other; the second instrument has blunt hooks at both ends. Japanese text appears on the... More

Harrow, hetchel, rake - Public domain drawing

Drawing shows a 19th century Japanese horseshoe-shaped harrow, hetchel, and rake. Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Kano Oct. 1878. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Mu... More

Horn-rimmed spectacles - telescope

Unsigned, possibly by Kano, 1878. From the "Medicine" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

[Samurai, standing, facing left, wearing armor and holding a bow, also...

Lacks inscription in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Kano [month] 1878. From the "Military arts" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japane... More

[Unknown object with open-work base, ornamental shaft, and cord(?)]

Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Kano Dec. 1878. From figure in [blank]. From the "Metal work" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part ... More

The Japanese Santa Klaus - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows two children standing next to a wall with a circular opening through which Hotei, one of the Japanese seven lucky gods, is reaching to give the children a gift. Inscribed lower right with Japanes... More

[Metal teapot with floral designs]

[Japanese man, full-length, standing, facing left, wearing minister's ...

Unsigned, possibly by Kano, 1878. From the "Social life" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

[Two men with long noses playing a game of go]

Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Kano Dec. 1878. From figure in "Kuwacho [?] Dzushi Ki." From the "Social life" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collec... More

Shinkan no tsuki, Taiso Yoshitoshi - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two samurai warriors fighting among fallen weapons. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Tsuki hyaku shi : 100... More

[Woman walking, holding a large tray or hat over her head, followed by...

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Modern reproduction. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Kayuzue / kōshohei, Shigenobu Yanagawa - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Kotobuki goban no uchi : Five legendary tales. Format: Shikishi Nishikie Surimono. ... More

[Porter with shoulder pole, full-length studio portrait, standing, fac...

Photograph shows a studio portrait of a man with a shoulder pole carrying large boxes. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict flowers in the upper right and a waterfront scene in the lower left. No. 1088. Ill... More

[Pictorial envelope for Hokusai's 36 views of Mount Fuji series]

Print shows people on a raft and a person in a small boat with tall reeds in the background and a view of Mount Fuji in the distance. Title devised by Library staff, other descriptive information compiled by Ni... More

Iris garden in Horikiri, Tokio - Public domain scan / drawing

Photograph shows blossoming irises at the Horikiri iris garden in Tokyo. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict thatched-roof buildings in the upper right and trees straw around the trunks in the lower left.

[Bishū fujimigahara], Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a cooper applying varnish to the inside of a large, bottomless barrel, with distant view, through the barrel and across a field, of Mount Fuji. Title from online source, other descriptive informatio... More

[Soshū shichirigahama], Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the beach and a village on the edge of a bay, with view of Mount Fuji in the distance. Title from online source, other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists... More

[Girl cutting a Japanese radish]

Photograph shows a young woman cutting a large daikon or Japanese radish. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict a woman holding a banner in the upper right and a bird perched on a stick above lotus blossoms i... More

Tōkaidō kanaya no fuji - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows porters carrying litters, sedan chairs, and individual persons across the river near the Kanaya station on the Tōkaidō Road, with view of Mount Fuji in the distance. Title from another copy, other d... More

Shinobazu pond, Uyeno at Tokio - Public domain scan / drawing

Photograph shows lotus flowers in Shinobazu-no-ike near Ueno Park in Tokyo, with buildings in the background. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict the Japanese red-crowned crane in the upper right and pine t... More

Lake Hakone - Public domain portrait drawing

Photograph shows a view of Ashi (Ashinoko) Lake (or Lake Hakone) with large red torii in the foreground. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict a pagoda in the upper right and flowers in a basket with teacups ... More

[Monk, three-quarter length studio portrait, standing, facing left wit...

Photograph shows a studio portrait of a monk. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict a box for scrolls in the upper right and a dwelling on a promontory in the lower left. No. 1015. Illus. in album: Japanese ... More

Yuri ni shōkin - Public domain drawing

Print shows a small red-capped bird perched on a bamboo stake supporting a lily plant. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: full co... More

Tea house, Uyeno, Tokio - Public domain portrait drawing

Photograph shows a large group of people, gathered for a group portrait, sitting on benches in front of teahouses, beneath blossoming cherry trees in Ueno Park in Tokyo. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict ... More

Portion of an illustrated Japanese or Chinese manuscript or scroll tha...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese scroll painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Japanese sun parlor, the Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia]

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

C.B. Warren in Japan - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of people standing on 1900s - 1920s ocean liner ship deck, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[General offensive of the allied armies against Tʻien-chin -- Co. 8, R...

Print shows Japanese troops bursting through a gate and engaging the Boxer forces at Tianjin, China. Title from accompanying material. From series: Boxer Rebellion picture series. No. 12.

Konen Uehara - Nikkō no gojū no tō

Print shows a torii and a pagoda as seen through a grove of trees. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: full color woodblock print.... More

Crown Prince & Princess of Sweden in Tokyo

A group of people walking down a street. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kachōga - Public domain drawing - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a bird picking grapes from a vine. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: modern miniature reproduction. Attributed to: K... More

Red Cross, Tokyo: Princess Fushima, Prince & Princess Kanin, Princess ...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Banzai" dance of Geisha girls of Kyoto

Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Launch of KAMOI (Japan) - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Secchū mimeguri - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a torii with two trees in a winter landscape, also a bridge in the distance.

[Colonel Awaya, commander of the 11th infantry regiment, leading his m...

Print shows the Japanese commander, Colonel Awaya, standing with sword raised, leading his troops in the attack against a walled city, possibly Tianjin, China; British forces attack from the left and French for... More

[Fūkeiga] Andō Hiroshige - Public domain drawing

Print shows a tree or wisteria at water's edge. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: modern miniature reproduction. Forms part of: ... More

T. Kadono, Vice Pres. of Nagoya Chamber of Commerce Nagoya

A black and white photo of a man with a mustache. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Flower drawing - Hanashōbu - Public domain scenic drawing

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: full color woodblock print. Attributed to: Yamagishi. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawi... More

Japanese garden, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

China's laboring class - a band of coolies under the Japanese awaiting...

H438 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1901 by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The dwarf with his heavy load on a mountain road, Japan

Japanese man carrying large backpack with mountain in background. H12054 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 3939.

A happy Japanese mother and babe

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

A Japanese sans souci. Arashiyama, Japan

Stereograph shows a Japanese woman having tea beneath blossoming cherry trees in a teahouse at Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan. H25498 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.H. Graves. On mount: Universal Photo Art Co... More

Children playing at the entrance to the temple, Nagoya, Japan

H25535 U.S. Copyright Office. "The Universal Photo Art Co." No. 142.

Cutting in a sperm whale. Mincing the "blubber" ready for the trying o...

Fourt Japanese crewmen working aboard the bark CALIFORNIA, off the coast of Japan. Photo copyrighted by H.S. Hutchinson & Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: ... More

[Japanese troops landed at Chemulpo after naval battle on Feb. 9th]

H43596 U.S. Copyright Office Title from copyright register. Copyright by Collier's Weekly, Mar. 22, 1904. Stamped on verso: R.L. Dunn. Published in: A photographic record of the Russo-Japanese War / edited by J... More

[Japanese officers directing the unloading of supplies, Chemulpo]

H43593 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright by Collier's Weekly, Mar. 22, 1904. Written on verso: Dunn.

The potter. 1900s Japan, public domain image.

Photograph shows Japanese artist sitting on the floor making pottery; room filled with finished vessels.

[Kuropatkin on his knees amid ruined battleships appealing to Saint An...

Signed on block by artist in lower left, includes chop. Includes extensive Japanese text. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Nihon banz... More

Ryojun daikaisen rokan gōchin no zu

Print shows Japanese battleships bombarding Russian battleships in a surprise naval assault on the Russian fleet at Lüshun (Port Arthur). Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsore... More

Over Palace of Machinery from the beautiful Japanese gardens, Louisian...

H52154 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 3234. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

One of the bridges in the old Garden of Hikone, Japan

Three Japanese women with parasols on bridge. H47715 U.S. Copyright Office.

[Hole made by 500 lb. Japanese shell and building wrecked by its fragm...

H63716 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7796.

[Japanese and Russian soldiers at a fortified position (probably Russi...

H63709 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905.

Expert workmen shaping objects on the potter's wheel, Kioto, Japan

Baron Komura and Kogoro Takahira, sightseeing

Public domain photograph of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Serge Witte and his staff out for a Sunday morning walk

Photo shows U.S. Secret Service agent William Flynn at far left in light-colored hat. (Source: Secret Service archivist, 2012)

[Russian officers on a tour of inspection among the hill forts during ...

H63733 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7781.

Rokoku no senji kannon - Public domain print

Print shows a Japanese soldier with rifle fixed with bayonet smashing Russian railroads and battleships in front of the one thousand-armed Russian Bodhisattva of mercy holding in its many arms battleships and m... More

Scenes and incidents, Russo-Japanese peace conference, Portsmouth, N.H...

Scenes from the 1905 peace conference between the Russian and Japanese Governments, mediated by the U.S. Government at the invitation of President Theodore Roosevelt. Scenes of the dignitaries and celebrities w... More

[A destroyed Russian warship being salvaged by a smaller boat, Port Ar...

H63439 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905.

[Victorious Japanese crossing the harbor to "Tiger Tail" -- after the ...

H63710 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7807.

The modern war god / Ehrhart. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a Jewish man dressed as Mars, the Roman god of war, decorated with symbols of money, standing in the doorway of a munitions store labeled "Marsheim Bellonaberg & Co." and "Ordnance Dept."; a ... More

Ainu men the aborigines of Japan, in feast attire, Island of Yezo

H79537 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by H.C. White Co. No. 4007.

The little daughters of a Japanese gentleman playing the Koto, Tokio, ...

H79520 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 4035. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Travel views of Japan and Korea

Public domain photograph of Japan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Travel views of Japan and Korea

Public domain photograph of Asain artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Travel views of Japan. 1900s Japan, public domain image.

Public domain photograph of Japan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Travel views of Japan and Korea

Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, coffin, grave, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Travel views of Japan and Korea

Picryl description: Public domain image of a market, marketplace, city center, vendors, people gathering, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Travel views of Japan and Korea

Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Itsukushima Shinto Shrine, Japan]

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Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Travel views of Japan and Korea

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Travel views of Japan. 1900s Japan, public domain image.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Travel views of Japan and Korea

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description