The Venice of Japan

Mortimer Menpes

1901

Watercolour

Source: Japan, A Record in Colour, facing p. 102

Situated on what were originally wetlands, where two important rivers (the Yamato and the Yodo rivers) meet, Osaka was from the start the thriving second-city of Japan. This was Osaka as Menpes found it on his visit of 1888. [See his own description below.]

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