TAMAMURA KOSABURO (1856-1923)

TAMAMURA KOSABURO (1856-1923)

MEIJI ERA, 19TH CENTURY

An album of Yokohama shashin (early Japanese photographs), albumen silver prints, some hand-tinted; opening on three portraits of the original owner dressed in Japanese robes; the album containing seventy-three further pictures including views of Mount Fuji, Yokohama, Nikko, Enoshima, the Daibutsu in Kamakura, and other locations, and portraits of beauties, craftsmen at work, and other figures enjoying daily pursuits, some portraits staged in studio settings, some pictures with titles; together with the remnants of the original box with textile cover featuring the name of T. Tamamura, the album 7.8cm x 39.5cm x 32cm. (2)

Provenance: an English private collection, acquired by L M Lees on his world tour in 1894, and thence by descent.