About this book
Gaslight, telegraph wires, trains, motion pictures, cafés, and radio brought foreign light and sound into the streets of Meiji and Taishō Japan. Beside familiar old objects, presences without names began to stir: too new to be gods, too lonely to be merely machines.
Suzune Taniuchi, a photographer with a small red bell at her throat, recorded them one plate at a time. These one hundred images follow the inventions that transformed daily life—and the voices left behind by a changing city—from the dawn of modern Japan to the end of the Taishō era.
When the old bell in the hundredth plate rings, lights, letters, footsteps, and warmth forgotten in the shadow of progress return to the night parade. What comes back is not one age, but two: Meiji and Taishō.
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