This photograph was taken in the late 1860s and shows Nagasaki’s Temple Street. A large cemetery is seen on the hill in the background. There is a local custom tradition of launching fireworks when visiting the dead, which is why many of the city’s cemeteries are on hills.
Image: “Nagasaki, Japan: Temple Street, with the cemetery on the hillside in the background” by Felice Beato (c. 1868). From the Wellcome Collection
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