Lot Essay
Views include Fujiyama, garden scenes, a snowy street scene, temple studies, villages, and bridges; portraits of Japanese musicians, women in travelling chairs, eating, sleeping, a group portrait of men dressed in straw coats and hats titled 'Pilgrims to Fuji', wrestlers in an outdoor ring, a portrait of a 'betto', women carrying their children on their backs, buddhist priests and a portrait of a samurai. Some of these portraits are from negatives by Beato.