An Outstanding Album of Fifty Hand-Coloured Photographs by Tamamura and a Group of Photographic Works on Japan, mainly by K. Ogawa

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An Outstanding Album of Fifty Hand-Coloured Photographs by Tamamura and a Group of Photographic Works on Japan, mainly by K. Ogawa
comprising:

The Tamamura album, labelled K. Tamamura (n.d., 1890s), the fifty plates comprising: (Untitled and unnumbered) a head and shoulders portrait of an elderly couple; 49, Kago, Travelling Chair; 404, Mukojima Cherry Avenue, Tokio; 25, Eating Rice; 155, Preparing Dinner; 181, Dancing; 23, Playing Samisen Tsudzumi & Taiko; 80, Visiting Ceremonials; 227, Reading in Bed; 149, Moving; 1589, Carpenters; 1572, Selling Flowers; 43, Pounding Rice; 74, Girls Dancing; 1615, Reading at Home; 162, Umbrella Maker; 1686, Lantern Maker; 1639, Iris Garden; 1635, Farmers; 1629, Doctor; 1572, Blind Shampooer; 1636, Farmers Working in a Field; 141, Planting Rice; 264, Dancing; 1597, Woman Playing with her Baby; 1566, Tea Picking; 249, Silk Store; 192, Ceremony of Samurai; 124, Sweeping; (Untitled and unnumbered), full length portrait of a young woman holding a fan; (Untitled and unnumbered), full length portrait of a young woman holding a scroll; 1579, Samurai and Servant; 221, Farmers; 16, Girl in Heavy Storm; 1634, Girls in Snow Costume; 87, Coolie Winter Dress; 1, Pilgrim Going up Fujiyama; 220, Writing Letters; 223, A Well; 53, Shinto Priest; 166, Wrestlers; 1525, Blind Shampooer; 5, Girls Dancing; 1631, Pilgrimages; 1633, Carrying Children; 1674, Post Runner; 35, Prisoner; 1506, Kioto Girl; 1547, Smoking Tobacco; 144, Walking; each plate with a handpainted mount depicting landscapes and traditional scenes, the spine imitating a Western-style leather-bound volume, the front cover decorated in lacquer with ivory details with a mother showing her son and daughter how to cast a shadow of a hare on a paper screen, the back cover decorated in lacquer only with a dragonfly and grasshopper; in cardboard padded box covered with a printed textile labelled in several places K. Tamamura; the plates in good condition with fresh colours, the cover with slight old damage, the binding damaged and stained in places, the box worn and with water damage
The album 15¾ x 15in. (40 x 38cm.) (14)

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拍品專文

Tamamura Kozaburo (1856-) was the owner of one of the leading photographic studios in late 19th-century Yokohama and according to a newspaper report of 19 July 1896 once received an order from an American dealer for one million photographs.¹

1 https://www.think-photo.net/archive/research/satow/yokohama.html

[Anon.], Hoketsu [Views of Kyoto palaces] (n. p., 1924)

[Anon.], Honganji shashincho [Photographs of the Honganji temple (Kyoto, 1910)

[Anon.], Tojiki hyakusen [One hundred selected ceramics] (n. p., n. d.), loose leaf plates with explanatory volume

K. Ogawa, Costumes and Customs in Japan (Yokohama, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore: Kelly and Walsh, n. d.)

K. Ogawa, Costumes and Customs in Japan, vol. 2 (Tokyo, n. d.)

K. Ogawa, Japanese Art Folio, 6 numbers (Tokyo, Jul. 1897, Aug. 1898, Oct. 1898 (2 copies), Dec. 1898, Nov. 1899, Tokyo)

K. Ogawa, Japanese Costume Before the Restoration (Tokyo: K. Ogawa, 1893)

K. Ogawa, Matsushima (Tokyo, n. d.)

K. Ogawa, Scenes in Nikko and Vicinity (Tokyo, n. d.)

K. Ogawa, Types of Japan: Celebrated Geysha of Tokyo (Tokyo, n. d.)
City of Kyoto, Kyoto [album of loose-leaf photos and texts] (Kyoto, n. d.)

S. Takashima, Illustrations of Japanese Life (reproduced and published by K. Ogawa, Yokohama, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore: Kelly and Walsh, n. d.).

Tamamura, Japanese Views and Characters, vol. 3., Tokio and Nikko (Kobe, n.d.)

Iida Shin'ichi, [Album of No masks] (Kyoto, 1904)