VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

Japanese portraits, costume studies and landscapes, 1880s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
Japanese portraits, costume studies and landscapes, 1880s
Concertina album containing sixty-five hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 8 x 10 in. or the reverse, the majority numbered, and several titled in Japanese characters and English, paper-taped at edges, tissue guards, green, violet and black Japanese cloth, 11 x 14 in.

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Comprising several elaborate costume studies of women in traditional dress, portraits of musicians, women playing board games, embroidering, eating and in a travelling chair; buddhist priests, a man in satsuma costume and an image of workers in the tea fields; with views and temple studies around Nara; and river views at Hodsugawa and Arasi-Yama.

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