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Portraits of Japanese women at their toilet, having tea, playing string instruments, playing boardgames, acting and travelling in kagos.
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KUWADA KIOTO
'Celebrities Female Kioto', 1880s
Miniature concertina album containing twenty-four albumen prints, 2 1/8 x 3 5/8 in., inscribed Mrs. C.B. Story in pencil inside back cover, Japanese cloth, g.e., in blue cloth slipcase titled and with photographer's credit on decorative printed paper label on front cover, 2½ x 4 1/8 in.
'Celebrities Female Kioto', 1880s
Miniature concertina album containing twenty-four albumen prints, 2 1/8 x 3 5/8 in., inscribed Mrs. C.B. Story in pencil inside back cover, Japanese cloth, g.e., in blue cloth slipcase titled and with photographer's credit on decorative printed paper label on front cover, 2½ x 4 1/8 in.