Vintage Japanese Stereoviews

Posted by Johnny Cat in Pictures on November 6, 2009 at 11:43 am


Photo: T. Enami

Photo: T. Enami

Pink Tentacle has an awesome collection of gifs culled from Okinawa Soba’s Flickr set- called the mother lode of online photos by enigmatic photographer T. Enami (1859-1929).  These particular photos were taken for a stereoscope (kinda like a View-Master) that made them look like 3-D.  Coincidentally, the geishas in the photo above are enjoying some stereoviews.

A stereoview consists of a pair of nearly identical images that appear three-dimensional when viewed through a stereoscope, because each eye sees a slightly different image. This illusion of depth can also be recreated with animated GIFs like the ones here… Follow the links under each animation for the original stereoviews and background information.

These animated images are worth the click.  Check them out! Link.


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4 comments to "Vintage Japanese Stereoviews"

  1. Flux
    November 6th, 2009 at 11:55 am

    Considering how Westernized Japan has become, and how different in general people there look now (compaired to 50+ years ago): I wonder if the Japanese youth of today looks at pictures like these, and wonders "Who the heck ARE those people"?
    Seems like a good portion of Japanese people (at least on Japanese Tv programs) look more white than Asian anymore. Same also for a lot of anime. They use very wide eyed very "white" looking characters that are oddly... supposed to be Japanese.
    Kinda makes me sad to see a culture loose a bit of its identity. I love their history. :(

  2. somealien
    November 6th, 2009 at 1:33 pm

    this is so cool ... though i got a little dizzy scrolling down through all those images .... it was worth it though :)

  3. Skipweasel
    November 6th, 2009 at 1:59 pm

    The two people with the horse carrying firewood - the horse appears to have its shoes tied on.

  4. pwscott
    November 6th, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    I wish I coulf use this process on my old viewmaster reels. I love stereograms.


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