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According to the Web site "Nihon Sun,"

"The annual Fuji Matsuri or Wisteria Festival is another chance to take advantage of some of the beautiful spring flowers in Japan."

"As the season moves on the pink cherry blossoms give way to the purple blooms wisteria vines throughout the country. In Tokyo the festival is also an opportunity to take in traditional Japanese musical performances at Kameido Shrine."

"Kameido Shrine, also know as Tenmangu, was built in 1662 and is home to one of Japan’s few remaining red drum bridges that has been immortalized in on of Hiroshige’s 100 views of Edo." Originally published 1856, Wisteria at Kameido Tenjin Shrine . . . is just one of many iconic images of Japan from the series."

"During the festival period the wisteria gracefully reflect on the pond as it hangs from overhead trellises and offers a lovely frame for the famous drum bridge."

www.nihonsun.com/2009/04/15/kameido-wisteria-festival/

This photo is from an album my spouse's uncle Elstner Hilton compiled in Japan between 1914 and 1918.

While Uncle Elstner was pretty good about annotating the photos that required an explanation of some sort, he did not date the pictures. So all we know is they date to between January, 1914 and December, 1918.
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  • Japan 1914 - 1918
    I own the originals of these unpublished family photos. ... As a salesman for Atkins Saw Company, Elstner Hilton traveled to the Far East to sell commercial sawmills in the early years of the 20th century. ... Elstner Hilton was my father-in-law Frank Hilton's* brother, which makes him my spouse's uncle. ...
    * Elstner Hilton's brother Frank Hilton compiled a scrapbook of photographs, clippings and other ephemera at Stanford University between 1907 and 1911. ...
    ps: I now have reason to believe that the photos of Japan may be stock photos that Uncle Elstner purchased and pasted into his album. There may be some exceptions: the images of his sister, Miriam, and photos of logging operations in the Phillippines.
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