FARSARI, KUSAKABE KIMBEI and others

Japanese landscapes and portrait studies, 1880s-90s

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FARSARI, KUSAKABE KIMBEI and others
Japanese landscapes and portrait studies, 1880s-90s
Concertina album containing thirty hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 8 x 10 in., titled and/or numbered in the negatives, tissue guards, black lacquer boards (detached), faux ivory and gilt onlay depicting birds by a riverside, oblong 4to., cloth box (broken).

Literature

Bennett, Early Japanese Images, pl. no. 62; Worswick, Japan Photographs 1854-1905, p. 24 (illus.).

Lot Essay

This album has an exceptionally fine binding and includes portraits of women in travelling chairs, geisha, shopkeepers, lantern painters (illus.) and dancers; views around Tokyo, Nikko, Hakone Lake and Osaka.

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