3-078-014 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Street sketches in Tokio, Japan: Samien player (musician), 1890. 'The city of Tokio, formerly called Yedo,...has three quarters of a million inhabitants...Our Illustrations, furnished by an amateur photographer, Mr. Chas. J. S. Makin, show street life, the figures and costumes of different industrial classes, who are met everywhere in the throng of city folk...The "Samien player" is an itinerant musician: some of this class...are blind'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.