Japan

<n>Samurai with two swords, Japan</n>, a hand-colored photo from the 1860s via <n>Mary Evans Picture Library</n>.

A photograph of two <n>Female samurai warriors</n>, c. 1880.

A hand-colored photograph of an <n>Onna-Bugeisha</n>, a female warrior from feudal Japan, circa 1880s.

A hand-colored albumen print of a Japanese woman, circa 1875, by <n>Raimund von Stillfried</n>.

A <n>Sōhei</n> warrior monk with a <n>naginata</n>, photographed by <n>K. Ogawa</n> for the 1895 book <n>Military Costumes in Old Japan</n>.

A portrait of an <n>Aizu samurai</n> from the 1860s.

<n>Maikos</n> in <n>Kyoto</n>, Japan, during the <n>Taishō period</n>.

Kyudo master <n>Heijiro Anzawa</n> (1887-1970).

A photograph of a <n>samurai</n> from the <n>Edo period</n> in Japan.

<n>Tokugawa Yoshinobu</n>, the 15th and last shōgun of Japan, practicing <n>kyūdō</n> (Japanese archery), c. 1900.

A hand-colored photograph by <n>Felice Beato</n> of <n>Samurai of the Satsuma clan</n> during the <n>Boshin War</n>, circa 1868.

<n>Japanese Officer in State Dress</n>, a hand-colored albumen print by <n>Felice Beato</n> depicting a <n>Yakunin</n>, c. 1864.

A hand-colored portrait of <n>Date Munenari</n>, a Japanese <n>daimyo</n> of the late Edo period.