A Japanese motion picture theater in Kyoto, Japan. A group of Japanese children play baseball outdoors. Other children stand as they watch the game. A man and two boys looking at Japanese movie posters. Japanese man accompanies the two boys to the cinema. The man buys tickets on ticket booth.
Japanese workers make fans in Kyoto, Japan. A worker shows a Japanese fan making method. The worker saws bamboo in short pieces and splits the bamboo into narrow stripes. He drills holes through each blade of the fan frame. The bamboo stripes. The worker bevels off edges and uses a wood chisel and a plane. He sands down and smoothen off each individual frame. The worker and the tools of his trade. The worker finishes the wood frame for a fan. He then places a shaft in the end of the fan and places finished fan frames on the ground to dry in the sun.
Wooden houses and buildings in Kyoto, Japan after World War II. Kyoto as seen from the roof of the Daimaru Department Store. Neatly and closely packed wooden houses. A modern-three story concrete building around which are built small wooden houses. More modern buildings as well as typical wood structures. Large chimneys of houses, roof tops and tree lined streets. Shijo Street shows modern brick and concrete structures two to seven floors high. Roof-tops of the houses. A modern five-story building. A view over the tops of the wooden houses. A very narrow street with tightly packed wooden houses on both sides of the street. Shijo Street shows modern buildings as well as typical wooden structures.
Wood frame houses around a large open fire break in Kyoto, Japan. Vaults (Kiura) which are all that remain after the removal of houses for the fire break during World War II. Vaults and mountains. Wood frame houses which were left intact. Mountains in the background.
A view around Kyoto Railroad Station in Kyoto, Japan. Rooftops of tightly packed wooden houses. Modern Marubutsu Department Store in Kyoto. The main street opposite Kyoto Railroad Station. A plaza area and a part of the railroad station. Several views of the station and mountains in the background. Pedestrian traffic along a street. A modern five-story brick building opposite the rail-road station. In the foreground pedestrian traffic and people wait for trolley cars. The main entrance of Kyoto Railroad Station with people arriving and departing. A large sign on the station reads 'Kyoto Railroad Station'. People board trolley cars.
A view of Shijo Street in Kyoto, Japan. A view from the top of Daimaru Department Store (600-8511 Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi Shijo-dori Takakura 79, Tachiurinishimachi, Nishi-iru) shows trolley cars and pedestrians along Shijo Street. Contrast between Japanese-type houses and modern concrete buildings along Shijo Street. Japanese laborers work on trolley car tracks. In the background there are two and three-story buildings. Two Japanese women work on a kimono which is stretched between two trees. The women remove the stitches and place pliable wood splints across the width. They clean the kimono with a substance.