Bakumatsu means end of the bakufu or the samurai ruling period. It was when Japan opened its country to modernize, after allowing no foreign anything for 150 years, and placed the emperor as the central power again. There are a lot of photos from that period, of which one was the Meiji Emperor's trip around Japan that I posted before. It's hard to believe that people lived this way only a little over a century ago.
farmer kids
haircut
samurai & shamisen lady
firemen
spinning
ladies sweeping & posing
Source: 【癒される】昔の日本 古写真集【江戸・明治】
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