From the top. The first card reads from right to left.
(Tokyo Meisho) Shinyoshiwara Daimon.
(Tokyo famous spot.). Shinyoshiwara main (large) gate.
Yoshiwara was the licensed red light district of Edo as Tokyo was called before the Emperor moved here after the end of the Edo era. Shin means new. This could be a newer licensed red light quarter, an annex of the older one or a rebuilt portion of the old. Yoshiwara was in the area now known as Asakusa.
The second read right to left as Shiba Zojoji Mountain Gate. I know the meanings of the two kanji for the gate name but not how they are read in this case. The gate and the temple in provides access to are extant. They sell excellent incense here. Then former US President Grant visited this temple and planed a tree in its grounds. It too still survives. Very near Tokyo Tower.
The third, again right to left reads Asakusa Betsu-in (Otani Ha Honganji) which translates to Asakusa branch (Otani school Honganji). This too is still with us.
4th. Right to left. Zoshigaya Kishimojin. This one I know nothing about other than it still stands. Will track this one down for photos.
The 5th is as labeled but the spelling has changed to Eitaibashi. The original bridge was built in 1698. I do not when the bridge in the photo was built but apparently it was replaced by the one that now stands in its place and bears the same name in i 1926. The bridge prior to the current, presumably the one in the post card was destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.
The bottom post card is a place I know well. Again from the right (Tokyo Meisho) Ueno Shinobazuike. (Tokyo famous spot) Ueno Shinobazu Pond. There is still a temple on the island but it looked different than that it the post card which was destroyed during an air raid in WW2.
From the top. The first card reads from right to left.
(Tokyo Meisho) Shinyoshiwara Daimon.
(Tokyo famous spot.). Shinyoshiwara main (large) gate.
Yoshiwara was the licensed red light district of Edo as Tokyo was called before the Emperor moved here after the end of the Edo era. Shin means new. This could be a newer licensed red light quarter, an annex of the older one or a rebuilt portion of the old. Yoshiwara was in the area now known as Asakusa.
The second read right to left as Shiba Zojoji Mountain Gate. I know the meanings of the two kanji for the gate name but not how they are read in this case. The gate and the temple in provides access to are extant. They sell excellent incense here. Then former US President Grant visited this temple and planed a tree in its grounds. It too still survives. Very near Tokyo Tower.
The third, again right to left reads Asakusa Betsu-in (Otani Ha Honganji) which translates to Asakusa branch (Otani school Honganji). This too is still with us.
4th. Right to left. Zoshigaya Kishimojin. This one I know nothing about other than it still stands. Will track this one down for photos.
The 5th is as labeled but the spelling has changed to Eitaibashi. The original bridge was built in 1698. I do not when the bridge in the photo was built but apparently it was replaced by the one that now stands in its place and bears the same name in i 1926. The bridge prior to the current, presumably the one in the post card was destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.
The bottom post card is a place I know well. Again from the right (Tokyo Meisho) Ueno Shinobazuike. (Tokyo famous spot) Ueno Shinobazu Pond. There is still a temple on the island but it looked different than that it the post card which was destroyed during an air raid in WW2.
So beautiful
And that pond!