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A group of people engaging in work of some kind on a canal.

People occupy a couple of rowboats on a lake.

A line of marchers, probably a group of traveling entertainers.

Two bicycles parked in front of a storefront selling meats and other food.

A crowd of people in a park under blossoming cherry trees.

A dirt path recedes into the background under widely-spreading cherry tree branches.

An ox draws a cart loaded with containers of night soil down a city street.

A set of two electric railcars moving on their tracks.

A man on a bicycle carries a towering load of dishes and food containers, quite probably soba as it was one of the most popular delivery meals. The practice of Demae (food delivery) is thought to have origniated in the mid-Edo period (1700s) and was…

A farmer and a small, heavily laden night soil truck in a cultivated field. Night soil trucks are more commonly known as Honey-Bucket trucks.