[60 fps] Views of Tokyo, Japan, 1913-1915 

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Those people staring into the camera could never have predicted that I’d be laying down here on my bed over 100 years later and staring right back at them. It’s just wild.

This is by far the closest we can get to a time traveling machine.

The look of curiosity on the people's faces when the see the camera, it's so fascinating and somehow nostalgic.

これ何回見ても良いな 街並み人の服装、表情、物にワクワクする

I feel like I time-traveled and everyone's staring at me.

Public: This video is for what? Cameraman: RU-vid content.

十数年前に逝去した祖父が、まだ1歳の時の映像ですが、ものすごく画像と音声が鮮明なのが、本当に驚きです。 活気のある浅草の風景に感動です。

100年以上前戦前の日本はこんな感じだったのか😮とても貴重な映像ありがとうございます！

The oldest living Japanese person was 10 years old at this time. Amazing to think that someone still alive today remembers seeing all of that live.

When this was taken. Kane Tanaka (the oldest living person today was 10 years old )

撮影した方　凄いですね。貴重なフィルム見れて嬉しいです。

たしかに...撮ったのもすごいけどそれが現在でも見れることがすごい...保存環境とか..めっちゃ丁寧に扱ってたんだろうか... たった100年前なのにファンタジーだ...

I’m Japanese and can’t believe this was “only” 100 years ago...and feeling so weird that my 101years old grand mother lived in this era.

This is a video from the time period when my grandmother was born ..... Looking at the video, it appears to have been filmed in the Asakusa area. 0:16The ”風鈴（Furin)”is a traditional Japanese tool that makes a cool sound when the wind blows to relieve hot feelings. I have one hanging in the window at my house. "風" is "Wind. Does "鈴" mean something like "bell, chime"? This guy seems to carry a cart and sell it. It looks hard. 2:00This is the Asakusa Sixth Ward in the entertainment district. There were a lot of popular theaters in Asakusa and the vestiges of them still remain. 2:16 　Since it says "十二階(Twelfth Floor)", I think it is the 12-story building "凌雲閣(Ryounkaku)", which was a famous place at that time. The name "凌雲閣(Ryounkaku)" means "雲を凌ぐ(surpassing the clouds)".In Japan. where there were no tall buildings at the time, the 12-story building was an innovation that made it a popular tourist attraction. Japan's first electric-powered elevator was also adopted. However, that elevator was not used very often due to many problems. To entertain customers climbing the long staircase, pictures of beauty pageants were displayed on the staircase and voted on at the top floor. It's a huge difference compared to the images from the US at the same time. It was destroyed by a big earthquake. In the big earthquake, the 8th floor and above snapped off, and about 13 spectators fell to their deaths along with the debris. However, one person was lucky enough to be caught by a signboard of a Japanese tabi socks brand called FUKUSUKE during the fall and survived. Fukusuke Tabi is still a famous stocking and innerwear manufacturer in Japan. 2:31Among the posters for various plays and movies, this one turned out to be the only one I could find. It is a silent film called "曽我兄弟狩場の曙(Akebono of the Soga Brothers Hunting Ground)" made by M. Pathe Company. This company merged with three other companies after a year of moving pictures to become Nikkatsu, a movie company that still exists today. Nikkatsu has largely declined recently, but it seems that they are still producing films and is famous for supporting the Japanese film industry. It says "Park Theatre" and has a slightly different title, or maybe it's a play about it. Although the staff is known, the original film does not exist and it is a lost film that cannot be seen now. I don't usually know that such a thing has ever happened, even to Japanese people. When I looked it up, I got a little excited. The way the kanji are written is so old-fashioned it's hard to read! 2:45　The product called "仁丹(jintan)" on the right pillar is still sold in Japan. It was like a refreshment that was labeled as a medicine, and it was advertised on a large scale to take advantage of the popularity of Ryounkaku at the time. 2:55 文房具雑貨(stationery・miscellaneous goods)　マント(Cloak) ショール(shawl) タバコ(tobacco) Even a hundred years ago, the text hasn't changed that much. I'm surprised myself. 3:10 　This is Nakamise street in Asakusa. 　I think it was taken before the big earthquake. The video era was a time when democracy was popular, the country was relatively peaceful, and East and West were blended together. The Japanese call it "Taisho Roman" and use it as a major source of material for comics and dramas. 3:17 The Kaminarimon lantern is famous in Asakusa, but actually there are four large lanterns in Sensoji Temple, including the Kaminarimon. This is one of them, the "小舟町(Kofunachou)" lantern between the ”雷門(Kaminarimon)" lantern at the entrance and the "志ん橋(Shinbashi）” lantern in the main hall. I found this out later. It was also the year that Yoshinobu, the last shogun of the Edo Shogunate, died. He was a shogun who used his natural intelligence to navigate through a period of upheaval that was too turbulent for him to manage alone. In addition to becoming a master of the shuriken, he also loved photography, oil painting, bicycles, and other Western interests.

子供って変わらないんだな 現代も昔も皆好奇心旺盛で楽しそうに今を生きてる このまま100年200年とずっと続けば良いなぁ

貴重な資料を公開して頂き、ありがとうございます 目の光やはにかみを見るとやはり間違いなく同族の哀愁を覚え考えさせられます

Cameraman: okay everyone, just pretend I’m not here and don’t stare into the camera

0:54 that boy over there waving his arms is a genius. He waving to the camera hes ahead of his time

着物ってやっぱり格好良いな…… かつての日本人のように私も着物を普段着で着てみたい

誰が撮ってくれたかわからないが感謝。貴重な映像

Fun fact: the oldest person alive now is Kane Tanaka (born 1903). He was 10-12 years old when this footage was taken.

I love how footage from this point in time usually has people looking right into the camera because camera’s was such advanced tech back then. Reminds me of the WWI film “They shall not grow old” how everyone is just fascinated by the camera

I was literally in Asakusa two days ago, then to see it alive over a hundred years ago at 3:20 is incredible!

As someone who looks highly upon Japanese culture, seeing Senso-Ji temple, a place I visited in 2014, back almost exactly 100 years made me tear up. Truly a landmark of history and beauty.

0:54 The little boy waving at the camera is ahead of his time.

I love when they look at the camara with such amazement on their faces. I feel like they're watching me through a window. What a crazy feeling!

I've been reading a lot of Natsume Sōseki lately. This video is so useful for helping me really visualize and understand the world he lived in and wrote about.

あの当時はカメラが珍しく 不思議そうに眺める人達が多い ように思いますが、屈託のない 子供の表情には癒やされるし、 浅草寺があんなに賑わっていた とは、想像すらしてなかったので 時代の移り変わりを感じますね。

It's crazy how that was just 100 years ago, it was an entirely different world.

I'm so impressed by this. This was like "only" 100 years ago. Look at Japan now, it looks so far apart from 100 years ago to now.

大正ロマンの日本が美しい映像で観れるなんて感激です！

この時代に自分のご先祖がいると思うとなんだか感動しちゃうよ。

This video quality is better than the modern security cameras today.

early 1900s japan: full of children 2000s japan: full of old people.

人々や景色に、質素ながらも清潔感と品位が感じられます。

「いらっしゃいませー」など、今でも飛び交う言葉がこの時代にもあったことがなんとなく感動。

豊かな時代だったんだなと感じました。 着物にマント、和服はカッコいいですね。 タバコやマントといった縦に書かれた ノボリも素敵。 日本文化を誇りに思います！

I can't believe that guy carries his shop on his back...

なんか･･･今の日本よりも心豊かで楽しそうだなぁ。と感じてしまった。

Looking at this, my face must be as surprised as theirs, as if we are looking into each other, but in a different time...Incredible work & footage, thank you ♥

The way they stare at the camera reminds me of the way people stare at the Google maps car in street view

"What's that called?" "It's called a camera, and you guys are gonna love them"

It's crazy to think that none of these people is alive today

2:12 Asakusa Junikai Ryounkaku. This brick and wooden building was the first in Japan to have an elevator installed. It was destroyed by the Great Kanto Earthquake on September 1, 1923, about 10 years after this video was taken. This cityscape was also reduced to ashes by fire caused by the earthquake, and is a very valuable video that cannot be seen today.

Nintendo was there allready but their business were hand-painted playing cards... how crazy is that?

人々の視線から、当時のカメラが遠くからでも確認できる大きさで、極めて珍しいものだったことがよくわかる。

アップロードしてくれて、ありがとうございます。 とても貴重で興味ある動画が見れました。

この映像が撮られたたったの50年前までまだ江戸時代だったことに驚きを隠せない…

With all those people staring at the camera it makes me feel like they can see us peering at them from the future through a time machine

The craziest thing about this old film is that there are people in Japan alive today who are old enough to remember when it was like this. Some of them could theoretically (but not likely) even be in this video! The oldest person in Japan is a woman who is 117 years old and was born in 1903. There are younger children than her in this video.

ところどころいらっしゃいませ~って聞こえるのが凄くいい。

良い世の中になったもんだ。こんな貴重なものが無料で見れるんだもんな。最近地上波のテレビ全く見なくなった。

Every time I see a video like this I'm hit with a "wait, people actually lived during that time??" for some reason. History feels like just a bunch of pictures and facts a lot of the time, so it's incredible to come this close to experiencing an actual moving world busy with its people

Cameramen guy had no idea that hundred years later his footage is gona watched by 800.000+ people

Thank you. What i see is evolution and influence. Your work is such important.

Very cool. Thank you for this!

The grandpa with his grandchildren at the beggining maked me cry, wholesome.

Japaneses at those time look very currious when they saw a camera and now they have best camera brands.

I think this is an excellent historical document. Thank you for the high quality images of this valuable film.

1:20 the structures designs here is so fascinating and amazing!

After colorized and upscale, everything looks so fresh, hard to imagine this is 100 years ago

3:14 This is the temple of Asakusa in 1910’s. The scenery of it seems to be the same as I visited three weeks ago. What a great video it is! Thanks!

Bellissimo! Grazie per la condivisione.

It really hit me as amazing because if you talked to one of the old people in the video, they might have told you how everything was completely different 50 years back from the time when this video was made.

Person: what are you filming? Cameraman: it's for my vlog in 110 years

The oldest people in this video could have met a samurai or two.

30年後に大戦に巻き込まれるなんて思えない程豊かで幸せな風景😢

映像もだけど100数年前の「いらっしゃいませ～」に謎の感動

子供が沢山いる、建物が立派 何よりこんなに綺麗な映像が残っていることに驚き

道がすげーキレイ 生活様式と美的感覚が直結してるのは凄い

3:40 に女性が「いらっしゃいませ」 って言うのが現代の接客と全く同じ言い方してますね

Oh my gosh... this is so cool and crazy to think about. Like this video leaves me with so many questions now

The girl that bounces the ball with her hand and then does it with her foot with the same level of control was amazing.

4:14 not gonna lie, that rope thing looks pretty fun.

撮った場所にもよるのでしょうが、とにかく子供が多いですね。活気というかパワーを感じます

技術の発展のお陰で、こういう歴史的な動画が見られるなんて 嬉しい。

す、すげぇ……。 ここにいるほとんどの方々は既に一生を終えていると考えると… すげぇなぁ。

The fact that they're all so mystified by the camera makes it feel like they're just as perplexed about us watching them from a hundred years in the future.

Amazing 😮

It's interesting to note how well everyone looks and how ordered and clean everything is ......

Its hard to imagine how people changed from wearing these traditional clothings to T shirts and jeans.

This is so fascinating seriously. Everybody looking to the camera, like they're looking AT you. I feel like I'm there. With them. Doing fast travel and sh*t.

当たり前なんだけど、皆生きてたんだなぁ 動画で見ると感慨深い

Wow! A glimpse of the great past. thank you~!

we colorized this old footage! but turns out everyone was wearing grey that day

この動画に映っている人の殆どがもう 亡くなっていると考えるとなんだか 感慨深いですね…貴重な映像ありがとうございます。

seeing videos from the past always feels so surreal

この映像に映っている方の中に、70代60代のかたがおられるけど、幕末に生まれた方がいる事が凄い。

these people looking at the camera, just to be looked back 107 years after...

None of these people ever imagine that their faces would be in the palm of your hand in 2020 😶

こんなにも貴重な映像資料が手軽に無料で観させてもらえる時代 ありがたい

Japan both now and then is so amazing. I would love to see it in person if I could

彩りが加わるだけで実在感がぐっと増す感じがします。素晴らしく且つ貴重な映像です。

Love how little kids staring at camera with their curious faces... sad to think they must have been sent out to war when they got older.

This is the closest we can see what kind of Japanese people and culture looks like in Demon Slayer, since the story happened in early Taisho period (1910s)

When I was younger, I always assumed that everyone during this time dressed in Western clothes due to the country's modernization. Seeing how everyone still dressed in traditional kimonos was eye-opening. I guess only the higher classes dressed in Western clothes.

I could almost see my grandma（born in 1908) as a little girl walking in this video. This got me so emotional. Thank you!!!!

Something that catches my attention, is how people in those years, still dressed in traditional clothes.

こんな貴重な歴史的資料をスマホで見れる時代に感謝。