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rif. 42135101 — Yokohama ca 1890's Tamamura. Black lacquer albumdecorated carved bone cover storks Mt. Fuji 50 hand-colored albumen photosmany English captions superb example strong images all edge gilt in original box large size images. RARE . . .A STUNNING JAPANESE LANDSCAPE & BEAUTIFUL LANDMARKS ALBUM . . . WITH 50 HAND-TINTED ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES . . . INCLUDING JAPANESE BEAUTIES AND YOUNG GIRLS . . . TOGETHER WITH THE RARE ORIGINAL . . . CLOTH COVERED PADDED CLAM-SHELL BOX . . This is a classic album of 50 images showing Japan's most famous and historic landscapes and landmark images. The majority have English captions and negative numbers. . It contains hand-tinted album photographs of famous gardens ponds tea houses temples shrines roads bridges Torii gates lakes Yokohama & Kamakura views of main streets the Great Bronze Buddha Mt. Fuji & other mountains waterfalls rapids rivers harbors Nagasaki house interiors Japanese beauties . Album pages are all gilt edges photo size:25.8 x 20 cm. page size: 34.5 x 26 cm. photos are laid down on both sides of each page. Each photo has a white cloth hinge some still have the original tissue guards as usual wrinkles near the hinge & corners area dog ears all unfolded small closed tears & the usual signs of minor age & use. . Many photos have a Romanized Japanese or English caption in the negative either in the lower left or right corner along with negative numbers. . Each photograph was skillfully and tastefully hand-colored with pastels for the most part. He avoided that bright red aniline used in the Meiji period his colorations reflect the subtle elegant and tasteful perspective on Japanese color application a rare commodity during that period. . CONTENTS: 50 ALBUMEN PHOTOS . 1. Prince Iwasaki's garden & pond no caption . 2. 411 UYENO TEA HOUSE . 3. 988 TAKINOGAWA NEAR OJI . 4. 495 UYENO TOKIO . 5. 1040A TEMPLE AT UYENO TOKIO . 6. 961 SHIBA AT TOKYO . 7. 52 SHIBA AT TOKYO . 8. 743 IMAI ROAD NIKKO . 9. 748 SACRED BRIDGE AT NIKKO . 10. 709 TORII AT NIKKO . 11. 715 YOMEIMON GATE AT NIKKO . 12. B792 IKAO . 13. 817 HARUNA LAKE . 14. 1006 MAIN ST OF YOKOHAMA . 15. 986 MISSISSIPPI YOKOHAMA . 16. 532 KAMAKURA . 17. 574 DAIBUTSU AT KAMAKURA . 18. 617 ROAD AT MIYANOSHITA . 19. 379B MIYANOSHITA . 20. 613 HAKONE LAKE . 21. 861 FUJI FROM HAKONE LAKE . 22. 1219 NAKANO TAKE MIOGI . 23. 1196 CHINOTAKI FALLS AT ASAMA . 24. 1087 LAKE OF BIWA FROM MIIDERA . 25. 930B KIOTO TOWN FROM MARUYAMA . 26. 916 GOJIOZAKA AT KYOTO bamboo forest . 27. 901 HOZUGAWA A RAPIDS AT KIOTO . 28. 956 KASUGA AT NARA . 29. 950 SARUSAWA AT NARA . 30. 938 HARBOR OF KOBE . 31. 1081 NUNOBIKI FOLL KOBE sic for 'FALLS' . 32. 460 TAKABOKU NAGASAKI 33. 458A NAGASAKI . 34. 1104A FERRY BOAT . ITEMS WITHOUT CAPTIONS: . 35. INSIDE INTERIOR OF A TYPICAL elegant Japanese house with . Tatami bull rush mats Tokunoma art alcove Shoji . sliding doors colorful hand-woven floor mats painted . scroll Bonsai furniture &c. . 36. Shows two young Japanese Bijin beauties . 37. Shows a middle-age Bijin . 38. Shows a middle age Bijin playing the Koto harp . 39. Shows two women kneeling bowing as a greeting with . the typical Omiyagi present given when visiting. . 40. Portrait of a young girl in elaborate Kimono holding a . fan . 41. Portrait of a young woman playing the Samisen banjo . 42. Portrait of a young woman in winter dress wearing a . head scarf and winter Kimono holding an umbrella . Studio posed a classic example. . 43. Another classic studio posed shows a woman bending to . the 'elements' wind & cold using her umbrella as a . shield. She wears very tall Geta wooden stilt shoes . with toe guards to keep her feet above the snow and . toes dry in a winter scene. This exact image is illustrated in Bennett see below on p.150 as figure 44. Ours is unnumbered & not captioned identical to his. He cites "ca. 1890." . 44. A women at her toilet she holds two mirrors so she . can see the back of her coiffeur. Her Kagami Bako . mirror box is adjacent. . 45. Three young children pose for he photographer in his . studio. A girl holds a large umbrella another girl . carries a baby brother on her back all mug for the . camera. . 46. Two coolies carry a woman in a palanquin . 47. A Rickshaw man wears a lacquered straw rain hat and . rice straw 'rain coat' in a studio posed image. He . pulls his Rickshaw with a beautifully dressed young . & elegant lady holds a large umbrella as she mugs . for the camera. . CAPTIONED ITEMS CONTINUE OR AS NOTED: . 48. 1016 RICE PLANTING . 49 No caption. Shows two Bijin standing on the edge of a . mountain road before distant scenery. They both stand . under a single umbrella both wear wooden Geta . shoes and wear Tanzan heavy long winter . padded long coats while on an excursion. . 50. "The interior of a textile silk cloth merchant's shop . showing hand-loomed cloth. Two women customers . inspect Kimono cloth while two merchants look on. . The salesman is a shop worker the older man seated . at the desk is the Joji boss he sits . with his Sanban/Soroban bamboo calculator at the . ready seated at his desk with a pencil on his ear. . Various cloth rolls are here and there. In the . background are several cloth examples draped. . THE PHOTOGRAPHER: TAMAMURA Kozaburo 1856-1923: This is the work of Tokyo/Yokohama photographer TAMAMURA Kozaburo studio. . Per Wikipedia: "Tamamura Kozaburo was a Japanese photographer. In 1874 he opened a photographic studio in Asakusa Tokyo and subsequently moved to Yokohama in 1883 opening his most successful studio. He was an originator of the Yokohama Shashin photographic scene. His studio was still operating in 1909." . See Bennett below for a summary of the other photographer's negatives and images which may be contained in this album. It's a well-known fact that Japanese photographers of the epoch sold traded exchanged and used photographs of several contemporary photographers in their albums. . THE ELEGANTLY HAND-PAINTED AND DECORATED LACQUER ALBUM: . This is a highly decorative and elaborately gold-lacquer hand painted album over wood covers both are in superbly immaculate condition. With full leather original spine laid down over black cloth with gold decorations and "ALBUM" stamped in gilt. . . The front cover is superbly hand-painted and illustrated with gold-tinted lacquer showing Mt. Fuji a small village below which is a bamboo grove and river. There are three Konotori Japanese stork with gold-lacquered legs and hand-carved in white bone with stunning wings necks & heads. One is in flight the other two are beside the river each in a unique pose. . The back cover is also stunningly gold and red hand-painted lacquer. It is illustrated with an elaborate butterfly Praying Mantis wasp bug and sprigs of leaves. . CONTAINED IN THE RARE & ORIGINAL CALICO-PRINTED COTTON CLOTH CLAM-SHELL FOLDING BOX: . This superb photograph album is contained in the original hand-made box from Tamamura's Yokohama studio. It is red cloth lined padded and quite clean. The top cover is a bit dusty as usual. The hinges have some splits and wear with one inside blue-cloth patch firming up the hinge. All original RAR E example seldom found complete with this box. . Please see the color photos posted to our website. . This album has the exact leather spine and gilt decorations as the one illustrated on p.94 in Hoerner see below. . BIBLIOGRAPHY: . BENNETT Terry.: OLD JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHS: COLLECTORS' DATA GUIDE 31 of the above examples are exactly listed here from pages 150-154. See above for a photo illustrated by Bennett found in our album as page 43. . --. PHOTOGRAPHY IN JAPAN 1853-1912 see pages 198-202. HOERNER Ludwig.: EINE FOTOREISE DURCH DAS ALTE JAPAN. See Wikipedia for Tamamura_Kozaburo . CONDITION: Each image is in excellent condition with a minor bit of the usual minimal fading typical of a photo album over 145 years old. It is in remarkable condition far and above the average same period example. . There are not marks damage or worm holes. Firmly bound many with the original tissue guards present some with foxing which does not affect the images preserved with albumen. . All in all an excellent collection of genuine early period photographic images. . RARELY found in such excellent and complete condition. . . unknown