Author: TAMAMURA, KOZABURO & KUSAKABE, KIMBEI; etc.:
Title: [PHOTOALBUM - JAPAN]. A Japanese lacquer album with fifty hand-coloured photographs. About 1880s.
Description: . A charming small Japanese album (18 x 13.5 cm) with fifty hand-coloured albumen photos protected with tissue guards, pasted on thick cardboard. The leaves are double folded. Original lacquered boards with gilt decorations on both covers. The album contains twenty-five photos of scenic views from different parts of Japan: Yokohama, Nikko, Hakone, Kamakura and Tokyo. Several have printed captions. The reverse side contains twenty-five photographs of people and costumes, many of women. Some foxing to the cardboard but all the photos are in good condition. This type of souvenir album began to appear in the second half of the 19th century in Japan. At first most photographic studios were based in Yokohama but after the 1880s several studios opened in Tokyo, Kobe and Nagasaki. See Terry Bennett, Old Japanese Photographs, London, Quaritch 2006.

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