Stock ID #177615 樺太写真帖. [Karafuto shashinchō]. [Photographic Album on Sakhalin]. HIRONAO SAIKI, 斎木寛直.
樺太写真帖. [Karafuto shashinchō]. [Photographic Album on Sakhalin].
樺太写真帖. [Karafuto shashinchō]. [Photographic Album on Sakhalin].
樺太写真帖. [Karafuto shashinchō]. [Photographic Album on Sakhalin].

樺太写真帖. [Karafuto shashinchō].
[Photographic Album on Sakhalin].

東京. [Tokyo]. 博文館. [Hakubunkan]. Meiji 37 [ 1904]. Stock ID #177615

Folding colour map, one colour folding plate, one page foldout black and white photographic illustrations, photographic illustrations in blue and black and white (unpaginated, 48pp), 26 x 18.5cm, 48 + 9 + 64pp. Occasional light foxing, upper corners bumped causing creasing to corners throughout, original colour pictorial wrappers, spine a trifle chipped but overall very good.

This copy is an extraordinary issue, No. 84, of the Nichiro Senso Jikki (日露戦争実記) [Russo-Japanese War Reports] series. It was published by Hakuhokan on July 25, 1905, only 3 weeks after the Japanese landing on Korsakov in Sakhalin. The series was a very popular publication during the Russo-Japanese War as three issues were published monthly, in addition to extraordinary photographic issues. In total, over 100 issues were published in the series.

This issue, with an attractive colour cover of a Russian man with a dog sled, includes 48 pages of photographic illustrations, with a foldout map, a foldout art illustration, and a foldout photographic illustration of Korsakov. The Japanese landing on Sakhalin took place in early July 1905 after the cease fire negotiations had started between Russia and Japan. This issue includes a few photographs of Korsakov during and after the Japanese landing, but others are mostly taken before the occupation. They feature Russian settlers and administrative buildings as well as rare photographic records of indigenous inhabitants and their settlements, namely the Ainus, the Orochons, and the Nivkhi. The latter half of the issue is text based and it provides information on Sakhalin and explains why it was necessary to occupy the island.

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