Early Twentieth Century Photographs of Japan

Author: [EARLY 20TH CENTURY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM]
Title: Early Twentieth Century Photographs of Japan
Publication: n.p., c 1912

Description:

180 silver gelatin black & white photographs mounted in a half calf maroon cloth binding with gilt rules and lettered in gilt. New head & tail bands, all edges gilt. Calf spine has been expertly rebacked, inner hinges re-enforced, endpapers and margins are foxed and cloth is slightly rubbed but generally very good and images generally clean. Each of the 180 images is approximately 10 x 7.4cm mounted on cards and inserted into the bordered pages. 48pp. Album measures 31 x 21.4cm

A large album of photos of a trip to Japan around the end of the Meiji Era (c. 1907). The traveller visited a number of temples, parks and castles in western Japan, including Nara, Kobe and Okayama. There are fine black-and-white landscape shots among them images of a park with cranes in Okayama, the famous Kintai Bridge in Iwakune and castle (possibly Hiroshima castle). Several of the images show Japanese pilgrims, beggars, rickshaw pullers, street sellers, festivals and beach scenes. Many of the photos have been labelled on the back. In addition to the images of Japan, the album contains photos which appear to have been taken on the journey to or from Japan to Europe by sea, including shots of Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Port Said and Genoa, and a shot of Stromboli from the sea. The photographer seems to have been a boat enthusiast. There are a particularly large number of images of junks, sampans, yachts and other vessels.

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Seller ID: 170965

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