Item is a photographic glass-plate transparency; part of a set of colour-tinted transparencies depicting life in Japan ca. 1910, including scenery, street scenes, workers, farming, fishing, silk production, stone carvers, wood carvers, metal workers, potters, and artists. The photograph depicts a street in Motomachi, Yokohama with decorations for 50th anniversary (1909) of the port opening. The diamond-shaped sign on the hill is the emblem of the city designated this year.