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This is Chinese style vase usually used for for flowers, placed in front of a Buddhist image on an altar.

Pair of small polychrome vases with identical decoration. Panel with a bird and two roundels/stylized flowers on one side, panel with flowers opposite.

Two men are swinging mattocks to harvest bamboo shoots. A third man is squatting on the ground and pointing. The photographer has labeled the print, "H52. Cutting Young Bamboo," and Turner has added the inscription, "The bamboo is one of the most…

An image of three men actively threshing rice using a foot operated device overseen by a fourth man. The photographer has labelled the print, "43. Pounding rice."

Wood carved with a spiral design and heavily varnished, capped with stamped silver-colored metal. Possibly the handle of a European-style umbrella or walking stick.

Small basked with a square lid, a handle, curved sides, and four feet.

Composite of professional photographs of babies' faces. The handwritten caption reads "These are the actual photographs of 1700 Japanese babies, taken during 10 years by a Tokyo photographer. There are two foreign babies in the group." The studio's…

Labelled "Morning prayer of budhist's priest [sic]" by the photographer, this image shows a priest seated in front of a r altar.

View of buildings, canals, and a bridge in Osaka. Turner's, "Osaka, Japan--great commercial center. 2nd city in the Empire. Sometimes called the Venice of Japan on account of its numerous water ways + bridges."

Campus of Kobe Girls' Academy (Kobe Jogakuin), now Kobe College (Kobe Jogakuin Daigaku). Turner's inscription reads, "Kobe, Japan. Headquarters of Southern Methodist Mission. Congregational girls' school in foreground."