Things Seen in Japan
Things Seen in Japan is a 1907 book by Clive Holland. It's interesting, it's old, it's in the public domain, and it's available for online reading at the link above. The photographs are staged (ridiculously at times; the plate on page 25 is a classic) but are worth looking at.
This hundred-year-old book has the added attraction of being in English, which is a good thing when you consider the fiendish difficulty of this language:
