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ZZJPA7
JAPAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM WITH LACQUER COVERS. N.p. n.d. (1890s). 53 hand-coloured and black-and-white photographs mounted in album. 27x32 cm. Lacquer boards. Leather spine, detaching and with much wear.
GBP 1,800.00
Souvenir album of 53 photographs, the majority hand-coloured, a few black-and-white, of Japan dating from the 1890s. The last three black-and-white photographs, of a similar size, show scenes in Canada. Each photograph measures c. 20x26 cm. Eight of the Japanese photographs are untitled showing: a waterfall, a boat, Nagasaki harbour, Mt. Fuji, a rickshaw, and 3 showing Japanese girls.
The remainder have the following titles on the image margin:
Entrance to Nagasaki Harbour; Entrance to Nagasaki Harbour (different view); Harbour, Nagasaki; Entrance to Shinto Temple, Nagasaki; 100-Steps Temple Osuwa; Osuwa Temple, Nagasaki; Cherry Blossom Osuwa Park; Road to Mogi (Tagami); Road to Mogi (Tagami) (different view); Road to Mogi (near a bamboo grove); Road to Mogi, Bamboo Garden; 80 Harbour, Mogi; Main Street Nagasaki; 145 Harbour Mogi; 143 Shimonoseki Choshu (Harbour Scene); 142 Shimonoseki Choshu (View of the Bay); B72 Matsushima, Inland Sea (Three View in Japan) Part I; 82B Inland Sea; A428 Inland Sea to Bingo; A426 Inland Sea at Bingo (different view); No. 408 Fujikawa; 9?? Fuji from Oh?ma; No. 182B. Mississipi-bay, Yokohama; No. 146B Yokohama; No. 103 Yokohama; 74B Street of Yokohama; 1006 Main St of Yokohama; 310 Creek Side Yokohama; No. 339 Yokohama; A715 Yomeimon Gate at Nikko; 715 Yomeimon Gate at Nikko; 760 Horimono at Nikko; 750 Sacred Bridge at Niki; 745 Imaichi Road Nikko; 1117 Yumoto; 1119 Yudaki Falls at Yumoto; No. 111B Chiuzenji Lake; No. 129B Chiuzenji Lake (different view); No. 290 Bridge (Made from a Tree) Near Chusenji; 1113 Rinzu Falls at Chuzenji; 1016 Rice Planting.
Following are three black-and-white photographs taken in Canada:
1250 Stoney Creek Bridge, Selkirks; 629 Glacier Hotel and Glacier, Selkirks; Untitled photograph of railway, forest and mountain in Canada.
The last photograph of a Japanese scene: Shiwomi-Saki, Mogi.
The photographs generally in good to fine condition, with the very occasional small mark and occasional grubbiness on the surrounding paper.
The album has black lacquer covers painted with a dull gilt cherry tree showing a section of trunk, branches, leaves and blossoms. Appliqued in bone, mother-of-pearl and metal are birds, leaves and chrysanthemum flowers. The covers somewhat loose. Leather spine worn and is detaching.
Subjects: Photography
Item 460 in List 206.
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