Author: OGAWA, KAZUMASA (Photogr. & Editor) / [SHIGENOBU, OKUMA]:
Title: A Model Japanese Villa. Tokyo, Ogawa Kazumasa, 1899.
Description: . Oblong folio. (39.2 x 29 cm). Title in English, colophon in Japanese and 15 plates with 19 hand-coloured collotype photos. All protected by tissue guards with English printed captions. Original decorated crêpe paper binding, cotton ties, some minor dust-staining. (Small paper loss to title label on front cover). First edition. Beautiful photos of an elegant Japanese country villa which used to belong to Okuma Shigenobu, Prime Minister of Japan (1898 and 1914-6) and the founder of Waseda University. Includes images of the exterior, the inside formal rooms and of the lovely landscaped garden. Okuma Shigenobu loved growing flowers which explains the many photos of chrysanthemums in beds and pots.Kazumasa Ogawa, renowned Japanese photographer opened the first photographic studio in Tokyo in 1882. He published this type of collotype album to promote Japanese culture to westerners at the end of the 19th century. This is a very fine example of Ogawa's expertise as a photographer and printer.

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, photograph, photos, photo, architecture, villa, exploration, travel,


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