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Japan, late 19th century

Album of fifty hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 8½ x 10½ in., numbered and titled in the negatives, morocco-backed red lacquer boards with cherry blossom design, the front cover with inset panel showing three kneeling ladies and screen decorated with bamboo, g.e., oblong 4to., in cloth box.

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Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Kobe, Fujiyama, Nikko, Futagoyama, a tea-house near Mogi, Hyogo, Maikonohama, Awajishima, Miyajima, Kamakura, Enoshima, Hakone, a Buddhist priest at prayer in a temple, a junk, fishermen, workers harvesting rice and four studies of young women.

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