VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including TAMAMURA and KUSAKABE KIMBEI

Japanese landscapes, tradespeople and architectural studies, 1880s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including TAMAMURA and KUSAKABE KIMBEI
Japanese landscapes, tradespeople and architectural studies, 1880s
Album containing fifty hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 8 x 10½ in. or the reverse, the majority titled and numbered in the negatives, tissue guards, red lacquer boards, gilt onlay depicting flowers, g.e., oblong 4to.
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Worswick, Japan Photographs 1854-1905, p. 79 (illus.)

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Views around Nagasaki, Nara, Kyoto, Tokyo and Nikko including temple studies, street views and garden scenes; portraits of a man with a cow wagon, shopkeepers including a view of a 'Curio Shop' with Samurai costumes and swords, a man milling rice with a foot mill, Japanese musicians and a portrait of wrestlers.

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