解説Wash day on the Tone River, Japan, Taisho era (1914 by Elstner Hilton).jpg
Wash day on the Tone River. Wikipedia tells us that the Tone River "is a river in the Kantō region of Japan."
"It is 322 kilometers (200 mi) in length (the second longest in Japan after the Shinano) and has a drainage area of 16,840 square kilometers (6,500 sq mi) (largest in Japan). It is nicknamed Bando Taro (坂東太郎 Bandō Tarō?); Bandō is an obsolete alias of Kanto, and Tarō is a popular given name for the eldest son)."
"It is sometimes regarded as one of the three greatest rivers of Japan (the other two are the Yoshino in Shikoku and the Chikugo in Kyūshū)."
For more information about the Tone River, go to Wikipedia at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_River
This photo is from an album Elstner Hilton compiled in Japan between 1914 and 1918. Elstner was my spouse's uncle.
While Uncle Elstner was pretty good about annotating the photos that required an explanation of some sort, he did not date the pictures. So all we know is they were taken between January, 1914 and December, 1918.
Japan 1914 - 1918 I own the originals of these unpublished family photos. ... As a salesman for Atkins Saw Company, Elstner Hilton traveled to the Far East to sell commercial sawmills in the early years of the 20th century. ... Elstner Hilton was my father-in-law Frank Hilton's* brother, which makes him my spouse's uncle. ... * Elstner Hilton's brother Frank Hilton compiled a scrapbook of photographs, clippings and other ephemera at Stanford University between 1907 and 1911. ... ps: I now have reason to believe that the photos of Japan may be stock photos that Uncle Elstner purchased and pasted into his album. There may be some exceptions: the images of his sister, Miriam, and photos of logging operations in the Phillippines.