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KUSAKABE KIMBEI (1841-1934) An album with 49 unusually fine Japanese scenes, including sumo wrestlers, tattooed men, tradesmen, beautif
An album with 49 unusually fine Japanese scenes, including sumo wrestlers, tattooed men, tradesmen, beautiful geishas, and more; and a photo attributed to Beato of a Korean group (perhaps an extended family). With many fine occupationals and portraits; a couple of the figures are depicted in outdoor settings (including the Bamboo Grove) but many are shown in a studio, or in an everyday environment (including a tea house and other merchant settings). Hand-colored albumen prints, the images measuring 8 1/8x10 1/4 inches (20.7x26 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto/verso, each with a caption label, in English, on mount recto and several with numeric notations in the negative. Oblong 4to, black lacquer with pictorial gilt details, covers detached, backstrip perished; with Kimbei''s hand stamp on the front pastedown. 1880s
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Notes: WITH--Felice Beato. Group of 5 photographs of Japan, comprising one of the Statue of Daibuts, Kamakura; 3 of the temple at Shiba; and one a bridge in Yedo. Albumen prints, the images measuring 11 1/2x9 1/4 inches (29.2x23.5 cm.), the mounts 20 1/2x14 1/2 inches (52.1x36.8 cm.), each with a handwritten caption, in ink, on mount recto. Circa 1870.
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