TAMAMURA, USUI, FARSARI and others

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TAMAMURA, USUI, FARSARI and others

Japanese landscapes and portrait studies, 1880s-90s

Album containing fifty hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 10 x 8 in. or the reverse, several numbered and titled in the negatives, mounted one-per-page, the majority titled in pencil in a later hand, a few with printed paper labels on mounts, tissue guards (heavily creased), black lacquer boards, ivory and gilt onlay (incomplete), depicting two women being drawn in a rickshaw through a Japanese landscape, spine strengthened with leather straps, g.e., oblong, 4to.

Literature

Worswick, Japan Photographs 1854-1905, pp. 79 and 98.

Lot Essay

Including views around Nikko, Yokohama and Tokyo including the palace gardens by Farsari; group portraits of Aino men and women, silk vendors, dancing beggar priests, musicians, a Japanese dinner party, a Shinto priest, samurai in armour and several other costume studies.

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