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SASHICHI OGAWA

Japanese landscapes and portrait studies, circa 1870s-80s

Album containing fifty hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 8 x 10 in. or the reverse, the majority titled and numbered in the negatives, mounted one-per-page, tissue guards, blue lacquer boards, two inset gilt panels, one depicting Japanese armour, the other depicting leaves, g.e., oblong 4to.

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Views around Yokohama, Tokyo and Kobe including street views, a tranquil image of two Japanese women boating at the Palace Garden, carp in a pond, several costume studies, a view of Mount Fuji from Otometoke, images of various shopkeepers, lantern-makers at work, two images titled 'Selleng(sic) the silk cartons' and 'Brushing off the silk worms'.

S. Ogawa operated in Yokohama from the end of the 19th century. He is said to have married Kusakabe's daughter. His business was recorded in 1896 at Sakai-chosi-chome No. 24

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