Approximately half of the photographs are by Shusaburo Usui, with the remainder including ewxamples by Farsari, Kusakabe and others. Views are mainly around Nikko, Fujiyama, Kobe, Kyoto and Tokyo including several river scenes, photographs of Japanese temples and houses, street scenes, an image of a man fishing in the river with Fujiyama in the background and a study of Japanese kites blowing in the wind above the rooftops. Two images of the structure at the Kinkakuji Garden, Kyoto show that the entrance gallery was removed between the late 1870s and the 1880s or early 1890s.
Usui was apprentice to Shimooka until 1877, and established a studio next to that of Stillfried. His photographs have often been mistaken for those of his competitor because of a similar numbering system.