Various photographers including Uchida Kyuichi and Kusakabe Kimbei

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Various photographers including Uchida Kyuichi and Kusakabe Kimbei

Japan, 1870s-90s

Album containing 113 albumen prints, the majority hand-tinted, sizes approx. 5 x 3½ in. to 10¼ x 7¾ in., occasional numbers and titles in the negatives, mounted one or two-per-page, manuscript list of titles loosely inserted, half morocco (front cover detached and spine lacking), ruled in gilt, folio.
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Including several architectural studies, river views, two images of mummified composite monsters, a funeral procession, acrobats, barbers, Japanese wrestlers, tradespeople, a group portrait of Ainos, game players, female bathers, the Emperor and Empress of Japan; and portraits of Japanese nobles and political figures.

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