Stock ID #155818 Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period. ALBUMEN HAND COLOURED JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHS.
Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.
Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.
Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.
Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.
Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.
Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.
Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.
Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.
Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.
Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.
Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.
Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.
Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.
Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.
Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.
Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.
Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.

Japanese Photograph Album of the Meiji Period.

[Japan]. (Circa 1890s). Stock ID #155818

Photograph album, black lacquered boards, elaborately inlaid (with some loss) over quarter calf, bevelled edges, gilt dentelles, endpapers gilt-flecked, all edges gilt, 36 x 27.5cm with 71 hand tinted albumen prints (most captioned with studio stock references), mounted over 25 thick card leaves, 31 full page 27.2 x 21.1 cm, and 40 quarter page 13.5 x 8.6, images with some fading and edges to the card leaves with occasional spotting and toning, but a very good handsomely bound assemblage.

Beautiful photo album containing a collection of 71 hand coloured photos of Japan from the late nineteenth century, with a splendid lacquered and decorated cover. The photos are commercially produced images which were mainly sold to foreign visitors who had the studio place their choice of photographs in an album of their choice. Included in the album are views of Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Nikko and Nara, and some fine images of rice planting, tea harvesting, boats, porcelain shop and street vendors. Some of are of scenery for example "Mississipy Bay" (Negishi) near Yokohama. Several are from the studios of two Yokohama based photographers: Tamamura Kozaburo (1856-19?) who at his height was described as "the best photographer in Yokohama" and Adolfo Farsari (1841-98) the last Western photographer of any note to operate in Japan. (see Terry Bennett, Early Japanese Images, Tuttle 1996, and Photography in Japan 1853-1912, Tuttle 2006)

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