Lot Essay
A good selection of finely coloured prints, a few from negatives by von Stillfried, with twenty-eight views including the main street, Yokohama, the interior of the Honmura Temple, Yokohama and other temple architecture; a tea house; wisteria at Kameido and the Tamadare waterfall at Yumoto; a cave dwelling at Dogashima, Hakone village and lake; Mount Fujiyama and the Shiraito Waterfall; a group portrait of the members of the Osaka Theatre outside the theatre; a funeral procession; a group titled 'New Year's Ceremony'; portraits including a doctor, a samurai, a pilgrim, 'snow costume', 'wind costume', 'winter dress'; studies of women weaving silk, eating rice, playing traditional musical instruments, hair-dressing; and of a pipe-mender and a flower-seller.