ALBUM: A concertina-style album of 51 prints of Japan. (Japan, 1904). a single album, comprising of 51 black and white hand-coloured prints, red-brown lacquered boards decorated with scenes of mountains and a man pulling a woman on a rickshaw, overall 100 x 200mm, the prints pasted down, (photographs appearing on both sides), mostly one image per page, each image with a manuscript ink caption below in a contemporary hand, most original tissue-guards still present, varying sizes from 78 x 79mm to 91 x 132mm; The album compiled by someone possibly serving in the Navy on a tour of Japan, to be sent to someone they know at home and telling them about their experiences of Japan, 'the views in this album & what I have written concerning them, will I hope give you an idea what life in Japan is like'. They noted purchasing the album in a bazaar, it is unclear whether the images were hand-coloured before or after purchase. The album seems to be split into two halves, one half depicting Japanese girls and women in traditional dress carrying out activities such as studying, eating, and trimming flowers, while the other half presents scenes of a number of Japanese cities. Images include scenes of Yokohama and Nagasaki harbours, tea gardens, the ladies' swimming pool in Nagasaki and Mount Fuji amongst others. There are a number of captioned images depicting ships including 'Japanese Man of War', the 'Albion', the 'Glory', and the 'Blenheim', with the compiler referencing a time when 'the British & Japan fleets reciprocated friendships & commemorated the Anglo Japan alliance'. a reference to an 'H.B.M.S. Albion' can be found in the Directory & Chronical for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, ... published by the Standard Life Office in 1904, as part of a list of foreign residents in the region. (1)
ALBUM: A concertina-style album of 51 prints of Japan. (Japan, 1904). a single album, comprising of 51 black and white hand-coloured prints, red-brown lacquered boards decorated with scenes of mountains and a man pulling a woman on a rickshaw, overall 100 x 200mm, the prints pasted down, (photographs appearing on both sides), mostly one image per page, each image with a manuscript ink caption below in a contemporary hand, most original tissue-guards still present, varying sizes from 78 x 79mm to 91 x 132mm; The album compiled by someone possibly serving in the Navy on a tour of Japan, to be sent to someone they know at home and telling them about their experiences of Japan, 'the views in this album & what I have written concerning them, will I hope give you an idea what life in Japan is like'. They noted purchasing the album in a bazaar, it is unclear whether the images were hand-coloured before or after purchase. The album seems to be split into two halves, one half depicting Japanese girls and women in traditional dress carrying out activities such as studying, eating, and trimming flowers, while the other half presents scenes of a number of Japanese cities. Images include scenes of Yokohama and Nagasaki harbours, tea gardens, the ladies' swimming pool in Nagasaki and Mount Fuji amongst others. There are a number of captioned images depicting ships including 'Japanese Man of War', the 'Albion', the 'Glory', and the 'Blenheim', with the compiler referencing a time when 'the British & Japan fleets reciprocated friendships & commemorated the Anglo Japan alliance'. a reference to an 'H.B.M.S. Albion' can be found in the Directory & Chronical for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, ... published by the Standard Life Office in 1904, as part of a list of foreign residents in the region. (1)
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