JAPAN - Meiji period (1868-1912) - Lot 260

JAPAN - Meiji period (1868-1912) Two albums : - including approx. seventy-five hand-colored albumin photographs of studio shots: young women, kimono, craftsmen, ceremony; and exterior shots: Osaka castle, craftsmen sailing boats, the boat-shaped pine of Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Yasaka pagoda in Kyoto, the back of Sanjusangendo (pavilion of the thirty-three intervals) in Kyoto and its interior, peasants, bonsai trees, children. Photo: 9 x 13.5 cm - Album: 15 x 19 cm - Comprising approximately one hundred and thirty albumen photographs of Japanese factories and handicrafts, each with a description. Dated Meiji 10 (1877), National Bureau of Industrial Exhibitions. Photo: 6 x 9 cm - Album: 12 x 17 cm (Mold).