KUSAKABE KIMBEI

Japanese architectural studies, portraits and costume studies, 1880s

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KUSAKABE KIMBEI
Japanese architectural studies, portraits and costume studies, 1880s
Album containing fifty hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 8 x 10 in. or the reverse, titled and numbered in the negatives, tissue guards, photographer's credit K. Kimbei Photographer...Yokohama stamped in ink inside front cover, black lacquer boards, faux ivory and gilt onlay depicting cranes flying over a marshy riverside, oblong 4to., cloth box (broken).

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This album has an exceptionally fine binding and includes twenty-three views and architectural studies around Nikko; portraits of geisha, a samurai, women at their toilet, a wedding ceremony, shopkeepers, a shoe-repairer (illus.) and Japanese musicians.