Abstract

On the early morning of 28 October 1891, the great earthquake “NOBI JISHIN” struck Gifu and Aichi prefectures. It was the first occasion for photographers to document an earthquake disaster after they converted wet collodion process into dry plate photography. However, little is known about who made those photographs, how the photographs were taken and published. The authors have been conducting a survey of the old photo-collections, such as the collection of Nagasaki University Library. During the survey, hand-colored photographs of the Nobi Earthquake were found and some new knowledge of the photographers was acquired.