Even a traveler who has visited Japan dozens of times would have a challenging time imagining life there at the end of the 19th century, when the country was insulated from the world.
And that is one reason to visit "Picturing Japan," the exhibition of photographs taken in that era that is now on display at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla.
A photograph of a rickshaw, for example, carries the explanation that there were more 40,000 rickshaws in Japan by 1872.
Most of the pictures are by unknown photographers, although a number of others were taken by Kusakabe Kimbie, who was active between 1880 and 1890.
Some of the loveliest images are of a sacred arched bridge and another of two young women, dressed in kimonos, whispering delicately to one another.
The photographs were collected by Dr. Helga Wall-Apelt, who has been a significant donor to the Ringling Museum and whose collection was featured in another recent Ringling show of photographs of Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon, also at the end of the 19th century.
The current exhibition offers works that are a cross between art and photojournalism, records of life in a particular culture, including one photograph of a man assembling a parasol by fastening oiled paper to spokes of bamboo, posed with the tools of his trade around him.
The exhibit runs through April 6.
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