19th century japan info?

Question:

i am writing a story set in 19th century japan about some samurai's for english.
i need to no afew things for it though:

did they have hospitals or doctors in that time? and place?
did they have cameras or photos, or did they just get a painting done?

Answer:

Okay well this depends on when your story is set. Japan went through a huge amount of change between about 1860 and up till the start of the 20th century and beyond.

First of all, think about this - if you're sick where do you go? A doctors or hospital right. Back then Japan had a huge population and unknown to most a lot of Dutch knowledge on medicine and so forth. So of course Japan always had a medical profession but as you get closer to the 20th century it became more modern naturally and less like Chinese medicine. Especially when the English, French, Germans, Americans and Russians set up there bases in Japan.

Now before the Europeans came most pictures where done by woodblock printing. SO they weren't detailed at all. But when they came and early type of photograph style came along and so many samurai, geisha and feudal lords had there photo taken. Art as well became more like the Western style and there's actually a good painting of a samurai that was in Italy! But just remember these were the dying days of the samurai so unless they were interesting enough to photograph then money was definitely an issue. They were poor!

If your story is set before about 1860 then