Kanaya Hotel Nikko Japan 1910

A little diversion into a bit of Japan Rhyming today with this pre-World War One brochure for the Kanaya Hotel in Nikko which composed 19 black and white collotype views of which two are folding, folding schedule of Fares to Places in the Neighbourhood of Interest. The original brochure came presented in coloured pictorial wrappers with a silk tie. The hotel is still there – see photos below and has a history of lovely art work…

The 1910 brochure

A later hotel luggage label

The Kanaya hot spring hotel as it was…

and as it is today….