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Scene from "Fair Japan"


Group with a rickshaw in front of Japanese-style buildings, one sign reading "JAPAN."
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Title

Scene from "Fair Japan"

Subject

Pan-American Exposition--(1901:Buffalo, N.Y.)--Photographs

Description

Exterior views
There are five Japanese subjects in traditional dress pulling a women through the streets. Two of the subjects carry fans to give the appearance of light and possibly denote temperature.
A group of people in traditional clothing are gathered around a rickshaw in a setting labeled as the Japanese Village. One person sits in the rickshaw while others stand beside it, and a person wearing a jacket with “Fair Japan” on the back stands in front. Decorative masks hang on the wall of a nearby building, and a sign reading “Japan” is visible overhead.

Source

Cosmopolitan, vol. 31, no. 5 (September 1901), p. 477.

Date

1901-09-00

Rights

Type

Image
Clippings, Portrait photographs

Identifier

LIB-005_0235

Alternative Title

In the Japanese village

Is Part Of

Illuminations: Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901

Citation

“Scene from "Fair Japan",” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed October 27, 2025, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/index.php/items/show/94997.