Beschreibung:

Japan.- Takashima (Suteta) and Kazumasa Ogawa Illustrations of Japanese Life, 100 collotype plates, all but one heightened with colour by hand or through stencil and with printed captions, one with small stain to fore-edge, otherwise a fine copy internally, original patterned silk with lilac cords framing inlaid coloured illustrated silk panels, gilt-flecked endpapers, g.e., a little rubbed and spotted, folio, Yokohama [&c.], Kelly and Walsh Ltd., 1896. ⁂ A good example of the popular photographically illustrated books depicting Japanese costume and culture. The publisher states at the beginning "I send it out to the public feeling confident that no such gallery of photographs, giving the exact picture of every day life of the Japanese, has ever been presented before in one volume". Subjects include geisha girls, Buddhist & Shinto priests, Ainu, sumo wrestlers, fencers, acrobats, musicians, the tea drinking ceremony, silk production, agricultural workers, transport, shops and street traders.