Beschreibung:

An Outstanding Album of Fifty Hand-Coloured Photographs by Tamamura and a Group of Photographic Works on Japan, mainly by K. Ogawa comprising: The Tamamura album, labelled K. Tamamura (n.d., 1890s), the fifty plates comprising: (Untitled and unnumbered) a head and shoulders portrait of an elderly couple; 49, Kago, Travelling Chair; 404, Mukojima Cherry Avenue, Tokio; 25, Eating Rice; 155, Preparing Dinner; 181, Dancing; 23, Playing Samisen Tsudzumi & Taiko; 80, Visiting Ceremonials; 227, Reading in Bed; 149, Moving; 1589, Carpenters; 1572, Selling Flowers; 43, Pounding Rice; 74, Girls Dancing; 1615, Reading at Home; 162, Umbrella Maker; 1686, Lantern Maker; 1639, Iris Garden; 1635, Farmers; 1629, Doctor; 1572, Blind Shampooer; 1636, Farmers Working in a Field; 141, Planting Rice; 264, Dancing; 1597, Woman Playing with her Baby; 1566, Tea Picking; 249, Silk Store; 192, Ceremony of Samurai; 124, Sweeping; (Untitled and unnumbered), full length portrait of a young woman holding a fan; (Untitled and unnumbered), full length portrait of a young woman holding a scroll; 1579, Samurai and Servant; 221, Farmers; 16, Girl in Heavy Storm; 1634, Girls in Snow Costume; 87, Coolie Winter Dress; 1, Pilgrim Going up Fujiyama; 220, Writing Letters; 223, A Well; 53, Shinto Priest; 166, Wrestlers; 1525, Blind Shampooer; 5, Girls Dancing; 1631, Pilgrimages; 1633, Carrying Children; 1674, Post Runner; 35, Prisoner; 1506, Kioto Girl; 1547, Smoking Tobacco; 144, Walking; each plate with a handpainted mount depicting landscapes and traditional scenes, the spine imitating a Western-style leather-bound volume, the front cover decorated in lacquer with ivory details with a mother showing her son and daughter how to cast a shadow of a hare on a paper screen, the back cover decorated in lacquer only with a dragonfly and grasshopper; in cardboard padded box covered with a printed textile labelled in several places K. Tamamura ; the plates in good condition with fresh colours, the cover with slight old damage, the binding damaged and stained in places, the box worn and with water damage The album 15¾ x 15in. (40 x 38cm.) (14)