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[KYOTO - LATE MEIJI STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHS]Biblio.com

Collection including three large ensemble photographs of women from a well-known studio.

1900réf. 214646Kyoto. Late Meiji 1900. Nine mounted studio photographs the images with some fading and spotting but overall in good condition the mounts worn and toned a few with occasional spotting: Three large ensemble groups of women 21 x 26.5 cms mounted on embossed card two with the Kyoto studio stamps of Kiyokuan and the other Kobayashi; One young cadets 21.8 x 27.1 cms with a glassine wrapper annotated with the names of the students; One older cadets 21.7 x 27.1 cm the mount with a stamped border; Two wedding couple and larger family group 19.3 x 13.4 cms and 21 x 26.4 cms in covered window mounts with the stamps of R. Kohno studio Kyoto each with manuscript annotations to the verso of the cover; One formal family group 14.1 x 20.2 cms in a covered window mount stamped Central Studio Nagoya the front cover loose and worn manuscript annotations on the verso; One 15.5 x 21.2 cms casual family group the mount with a greek key and foliated border worn and the image faded. Five blank patient registration forms on fine paper in very good condition. A collection of early 20th century photographs from a well-educated Japanese middle-class family. It is likely that they belonged to the family of a doctor named Tanaka Fusa who had a clinic in Nishio town in the Hazu district of Aichi Prefecture. The photos are accompanied by mid-20th century patient registration forms from Dr. Tanaka's clinic. Three of the photos show large group of women approximately 200 in total and were produced by the Kiyokuan Studio in Kyoto a studio established by Kobayashi Teisuke in 1900. They were most likely female high school students on their school excursion to Kyoto each adopting the same hair style Hisashigami style which was very fashionable among high school girls towards the end of the 19th century. Another family group photo bears the mark of well-known Meiji era Kyoto photographer Hori Masumi 1857-1911. Two later photos are of the wedding in the grounds of Kyoto's Heian Jingu of Ueki Ukichi and his bride Ujiko in May 1929. A Ueda Ukichi is listed as a law student at Kansai University in the early 1920s so this may be the same person. There is an early twentieth century photo of a group of schoolboys each carefully named on the covering tissue and a 1929 photo from a Nagoya studio of a group of dignitaries also individually named on the covering sheet. . unknown

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[JAPAN - STUDIO PHOTO ALBUM] TAMAMURA, KOZABUROBiblio.com

Japanese Photograph Album of the Late Meiji Period.

1890réf. 215089Japan. Circa1890s. 50 hand-tinted albumen prints 30 captioned with studio stock references mounted on thick gilt-edged card leaves19.5 x 25 cm in an album 27.5 x 35 cms; elaborately lacquered boards scuffed and chipped inlaid with mother of pearl with loss over quarter calf renewed bevelled edges gilt dentelles endpapers gilt-flecked some fading and spotting to the images and toning to the margins of the card leaves but a very good handsomely bound collection. Beautiful studio album containing a collection of 50 hand coloured photos of Japan with a splendid lacquered and decorated cover. The photos were commercially produced images which were sold to foreign visitors who had the studio place photographs in an album of their choice. This album is unusually interesting because unlike many where photographs were more randomly placed the images have been selected and arranged geographically beginning in Tokyo and moving southwards: Nikko Yokohama Miyanoshita & Hakone Lake Mount Fuji Kyoto Osaka Kobe and Nagasaki. There are fine images and portraits of geisha including an uncaptioned image of geisha seated possibly by the Kamo River in Kyoto entertaining a male guest. A lute is placed on the rice mat together with a tray of beer. One of the geisha is looking straight to camera a striking composition. Another uncaptioned in the Kyoto group is likely to be in Arashiyama shows a sandalled figure on a mountain path overlooking the leisure boating below. There are also images of pagoda fishing rice planting street vendors and markets. More than half the photographs appear to be from the studio of the Yokohama based photographer Tamamura Kozaburo c.1856-192 who at his height was described as "the best photographer in Yokohama". As Terry Bennett has attested Tamamura's business strategy of selling souvenir albums of views and costumes to foreigners became a "winning formula". see Terry Bennett "Early Japanese Images" Tuttle 1996 and "Photography in Japan 1853-1912" Tuttle 2006 . hardcover

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[CHINA; SUNQUA (studio of)].Biblio.com

Album of Chinese Export Pith Paper Paintings Depicting the Manufacture of Tea.

réf. 100987Canton circa 1830-1870. . 4to album 33 x 26 cm; 24 bodycolours on pith paper each 30.5 x 20.4 cm all mounted on paper and framed with a pale blue silk fabric border bookplate 3 plates with small marginal tears; bound in contemporary patterned decorated silk boards a touch rubbed but overall bright and attractive. An excellent example of a rare Chinese album of paintings revealing the tea production process in detail. Attributed to the studio or circle of Sunqua fl.18301870 the present album contains fine examples of pith paper paintings produced in China most often Canton for export to the Western market. The technique of bodycolour on pith produces a semi-translucent effect unattainable using Western methods and entranced the Western world in the nineteenth century. The subjects of these 'trade' albums were chosen to appeal to Europeans evoking a sense of the 'Orient' to those that had not travelled to China meaning often the paintings were of Chinese flora and fauna or costumes. The subject of tea production as here was less common but perhaps more effectively evoked the connection between China and the West as the viewer sees the full process of the creation of a product which they would have had in their tea cups at home complete with the painting and shipping of the crates which arrived in European ports. Canton as the only Chinese port permitted to trade with the West from 1757-1842 became the centre of pith painting in the 1830s and 40s. Studios such as that of Sunqua flourished with a combination of artistic skill and efficient production that allowed them to meet the demand from the Western market. Sunqua himself was labelled the 'Chinese Hogarth' by Charles Toogood Downing in his work The Fan-qui in China for his impressive artistic skill in both oil and bodycolour. The trade suffered during the First Opium War 1839-41 when a number of the studios in Canton harbour were burned and then a fire in 1856 destroyed most of what was left. The impact of the pith paper painting trade was impressive considering it thrived in such a relatively small time period and the continued presence of the paintings in European institutions testifies to their enduring appeal both visually and historically. There are collections of paintings on pith in the Ashmolean the British Museum the Fitzwilliam the Hermitage the Library of Congress the Peabody/Essex Museum in Massachusetts and the Hong Kong Museum of Art. [Canton, circa 1830-1870]. hardcover

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A SUITE OF 7 COLOR CHINESE PITH PAINTINGS SHOWING CHINESE WOMAN PLAYING MUSICAL

réf. 98101501Canton 1860-80's Cheungqua. A group of 7 pith or Tongcao color paintings usual minimal issues mostly clean & solid sold "as is" as a collection with the typical chips & a few fox spots else very good clean examples. A RARE GROUP ! . . . . A SUITE OF 7 FINE CHINESE COLOR PITH PAINTINGS . . . SHOWING BEAUTIFULLY DRESSED CHINESE WOMEN . . . PLAYING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS . . . EXECUTED IN STUNNING & BRILLIANT COLORS . . . AKA: CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS . A group of typical "trade paintings" executed by Chinese native artists for foreign traders visiting Canton or Macao during the early to mid-19th century. . A SUPERB SUITE OF FABULOUS COLOR PITH PAINTINGS: A stunningly beautiful group of hand-painted color pith paintings depicting a woman playing a musical instrument. . "GOLDEN LOTUS" or "LOTUS FEET" BOUND FEET Chanzu: This like most illustrations of the period show the women with bound feet. Chanzu bound feet was an erotic obsession and fetish in ancient China. The erotic ramifications are outlined in the references below. . The paintings illustrate Chinese women in a domestic scene with furniture playing musical instruments. Subjects are: . a. Yue1in Ruan Moon Guitar Moon Zither 4 stringed . b. Yanqin Chinese Dulcimer . c. Sanxian three-stringed Chinese lute . d. Drumming on the back of a Chinese ceramic bowl . e. Dizi Chinese bamboo flute . f. Huqin Chinese violin . g. Tong Luo Chinese Brass Gong . DESCRIPTION OF THE PAINTING ART WORK AND CONDITION: . Each painting is in brilliant vivid and stunning colors. Each is skillfully painted with a fine hand delicate fine-point brush with great detail incredible reality texture and appeal. . As usual the set paintings were tipped to a contemporary backing period Each painting is backed with a contemporary stiff paper or a more current back card. . Items "a" & "b" are matted see cover.jpg & title.jpg photos posted to our website. . Each painting is approximately 21 x 34 cm. most have a blue silk ribbon border partial border or border lacking chipped and the like on has restorations on the verso in the margin only. . Each painting has some chips parts missing on the edges or with small holes here and there 'e' by and large the images are complete but some may have usual and often typical age-related cracks or splits a touch of fox spots on "c." . Suitable for framing & display. Please review photographs posted to our website for details. . "RICE PAPER" PAINTINGS: Several authors refer to this name rather than the proper name "Pith" paper paintings also can be called "Tung Tsao." . THE CANTON ARTIST OR 'SCHOOL' OF CHEUNG QUA: Cheung Qua was an export watercolor painter in Canton. He and followers of his school produced various single and albums of these paintings which were sold from his studio. . Often his in-house artists began painting on their own thus replicating the techniques subjects and essence of their masters. Because these paintings were rarely signed the one and only identification ever found was occasionally on the album cover or spine with the studio name. . Often these paintings were sold in various shops in Macao the main resting and gathering place of foreigners during part of the year. . REFERENCE: . CLUNAS Craig.: CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS. This entire book is devoted to Pith or Rice paper paintings. For musical instruments see color plates on pp.50-53 especially plates on pp.66-67 plates 39 & 40 are particularly similar to our examples that is to say by the same or an artist who was in the same house of Cheungqua or that school. CHU Arthur. et al.: ORIENTAL ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES: A GUIDE pp.62-66. THE CHINESE PITH PAINTING COLLECTION AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA: An Annotated Guide. Crossman Carl L. The decorative arts of the China trade : paintings furnishings and exotic curiosities. LEVY Howard S.: CHINESE FOOT BINDING: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom. . --. THE LOTUS LOVERS: The Complete History of the Curious Erotic Custom of Foot binding in China. JACKSON Beverly.: SPLENDID SLIPPERS: A THOUSAND YEARS OF AN EROTIC TRADITION. . . unknown

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[CHEUNGQUA ?]. [Studio Or School of Cheung-Qua]Biblio.com

COLOR CHINESE PITH PAINTING SHOWING AN IMPERIAL CHINESE WOMAN:CAISE ZHONGGUO SHI

réf. 38044201Canton 1860-80's Cheungqua. A single pith or Tongcao color painting usual minimal issues clean & solid example brilliantly vivid colors rarely found in such clean & fine condition. A RARE EXAMPLE ! . . . . FINE CHINESE COLOR PITH PAINTINGS . . . SHOWING BEAUTIFULLY DRESSED CHINESE IMPERIAL COURT LADY . . . EXECUTED IN STUNNING & BRILLIANT COLORS . . . AKA: CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS . A stunning Chinese Imperial Court. She wears a golden-embroidered outer dress with elaborate collar sleeves and hem. She wears pink silk-embroidered pants and her "lotus" bound feet are on a wooden stool. She sits on a Ming dynasty style Huahuali wood chair with a fan in her right hand and silk-embroidered accessory in her left. Adjacent to her is a matching Ming table with three ripe 'You' fruits pommel. . This is a typical studio trade painting" executed by Chinese native artists hand-painted color pith painting for foreign traders visiting Canton or Macao during the early to mid-19th century. . "GOLDEN LOTUS" or "LOTUS FEET" BOUND FEET Chanzu: This like most illustrations of the period show the woman with bound feet peeking out below her pant cuff. Chanzu bound feet was an erotic obsession and fetish in ancient China. The erotic ramifications are outlined in the references below. . DESCRIPTION OF THE PAINTING ART WORK AND CONDITION: . This painting is in brilliant vivid and stunning colors. Skillfully painted with a fine hand delicate fine-point brush with great detail incredible reality texture and appeal. . As usual this paintings was tipped to a contemporary stiff backing paper card. . This painting is approximately 19.5 x 27.5 cm. . There are a few old mends on the verso the image is not impacted it remains quite solid and very stable. By and large a far and above average excellent example. Suitable for framing and display. . Please review the photograph posted to our website for details. . "RICE PAPER" PAINTINGS: Several authors refer to this name rather than the proper name "Pith" paper paintings also can be called "Tung Tsao." . THE CANTON ARTIST OR 'SCHOOL' OF CHEUNG QUA: Cheung Qua was an export watercolor painter in Canton. He and followers of his school produced various single and albums of these paintings which were sold from his studio. . Often his in-house artists began painting on their own thus replicating the techniques subjects and essence of their masters. Because these paintings were rarely signed the one and only identification ever found was occasionally on the album cover or spine with the studio name. . Often these paintings were sold in various shops in Macao the main resting and gathering place of foreigners during part of the year. . REFERENCE: . CLUNAS Craig.: CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS. This entire book is devoted to Pith or Rice paper paintings. For musical instruments see color plates on pp.50-53 especially plates on pp.66-67 plates 39 & 40 are particularly similar to our examples that is to say by the same or an artist who was in the same house of Cheungqua or that school. CHU Arthur. et al.: ORIENTAL ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES: A GUIDE pp.62-66. THE CHINESE PITH PAINTING COLLECTION AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA: An Annotated Guide. Crossman Carl L. The decorative arts of the China trade : paintings furnishings and exotic curiosities. LEVY Howard S.: CHINESE FOOT BINDING: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom. . --. THE LOTUS LOVERS: The Complete History of the Curious Erotic Custom of Foot binding in China. JACKSON Beverly.: SPLENDID SLIPPERS: A THOUSAND YEARS OF AN EROTIC TRADITION. . . unknown

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