Various photographers including Baron Von Stillfried

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Various photographers including Baron Von Stillfried
Japanese portrait studies and architecture, 1870s-80s
Album containing thirty-nine albumen prints, including one loosely inserted, twenty-seven hand-tinted, three titled and four numbered in the negatives, brown morocco, titled in ink Coloured Japanese Photographs on paper label on spine, ruled in gilt, g.e., lge. 4to.
Literature
The image of a Japanese woman collecting water from a well is illustrated in Cortazzi and Bennett, Japan, pl. 96
Further details
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Lot Essay

Portraits of women in rickshaws and kagos, a basket-weaver, an umbrella-maker, musicians, sumo wrestlers, dancers, women at their toilet, geisha, a tattooed man and a group portrait of men in traditional straw raincoats.

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