Photographer: Kusakabe Kimbei (1841 - 1932) and unknown. Views of landscapes, temples, cities and villages of Japan. 1890s. 50 hand-colored albumen prints. Each circa 20 x 27 cm. Most prints with title and number in the negative in lower corners, mounted to gilt-edged album boards (slightly warped, some foxing, time-stained in edges), bound in contemporary decorative black lacquer album (corners chipped) with relief landscape scene in gold, with leather spine (rubbed and torn along one side), 28 x 37 cm. Very picturesque album with finely hand-colored prints. The cities and villages include: Tokyo, Nikko, Nagasaki, Arima, Haruna, Hiogo, Honmoku, Kyoto, Katsuragawa, Nara, Hakone, Miyanoshita, Kiga, Enoshima and Kamakura. – Some prints slightly faded in edges, some with light surface scuff marks/scratches, otherwise in good to very good condition. Lit.: Terry Bennett. Photography in Japan 1853 - 1912. Tokyo 2006.
Photographer: Kusakabe Kimbei (1841 - 1932) and unknown. Views of landscapes, temples, cities and villages of Japan. 1890s. 50 hand-colored albumen prints. Each circa 20 x 27 cm. Most prints with title and number in the negative in lower corners, mounted to gilt-edged album boards (slightly warped, some foxing, time-stained in edges), bound in contemporary decorative black lacquer album (corners chipped) with relief landscape scene in gold, with leather spine (rubbed and torn along one side), 28 x 37 cm. Very picturesque album with finely hand-colored prints. The cities and villages include: Tokyo, Nikko, Nagasaki, Arima, Haruna, Hiogo, Honmoku, Kyoto, Katsuragawa, Nara, Hakone, Miyanoshita, Kiga, Enoshima and Kamakura. – Some prints slightly faded in edges, some with light surface scuff marks/scratches, otherwise in good to very good condition. Lit.: Terry Bennett. Photography in Japan 1853 - 1912. Tokyo 2006.
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