Including several interesting portrait studies of Japanese girls in traditional costume, a doctor and his patient, group portraits of families drinking tea, Japanese people in a curiosity shop, a girl at her toilet, a woman dressing another woman's hair, barbers, 'strolling buffoons', priests, a groom, officers, The Chief of Police, Satsuma's Admiral and Samurai; and landscape studies including Fujiyama, Kanagawa, Yokohama and its river (before Yokohama was destroyed by fire in 1866), Palace of Hossokawaw, The British Legation in Yeddo, panoramas of Yokohama and bay of Yeddo and the Temple of Nagasaki.
Also including two art reproduction photographs of drawings by the artist Charles Wirgman, Beato's travelling partner.

This album is a fine example of Beato's early work in Japan. Beato had travelled to Japan in 1863 having arrived earlier in China with the English and French forces. He and his travelling companion, Charles Wirgman, the illustrator and correspondent of the 'Illustrated London News' set up a studio called 'Beato & Wirgman, Artists & Photographers' in Yokohama in 1863 which was to survive up until the 1870s. However, in 1866 the majority of Beato's negatives perished in the great fire of Yokohama that was to destroy his studio and most of the city. The photographs included in this album are from the pre-fire period.