VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS INCLUDING KUSAKABE, TAMAMURA and UCHIDA

Life in Japan, circa 1870s-80s

細節
VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS INCLUDING KUSAKABE, TAMAMURA and UCHIDA
Life in Japan, circa 1870s-80s
Album of over 240 photographs, albumen prints, 152 approx. 8 x 10½ in. or the reverse, the remainder approx. 3½ x 5½ in. or the reverse, the majority hand-tinted, numbered and titled in the negatives, dark green morocco, g.e., oblong folio.
出版
Worswick, Japan Photographs 1854-1905, back cover illus., pp. 60 and 113 (each illus.); Bennett, Early Japanese Images, pl. 86 and 87

拍品專文

A large album surveying the customs, types and landscapes of old Japan, with several unusual subjects including farming scenes showing workers in the fields; fishermen and shell-pickers on the beach; the growing and preparation of rice, tea and barley for market; methods of transporting produce and people; shops and street vendors; women working with silk and cotton; ornamental gardens and views; Theatre Street, Yokohama; funeral processions and cemeteries; the smaller prints mostly costume portraits and eight Chinese portrait groups.