EU: Gezicht op Kyoto (1870)
1870 Kyoto, Japan
Rooftops and hillsides of Kyoto stretch across this 1870 view of the former Japanese imperial capital, taken not long after the city's transition following the Meiji Restoration, when the emperor's court relocated to Tokyo and Kyoto's role in national life was changing.
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