[ Photographs ] (Japan) Farsari Fine album of 61 photographs by A. Farsari & Co.,Yokohama, all but the montage title page delicately hand-colored, of Japan and its people including voluntary and judicial Hara-Kiri; two group portraits of the Ainu

[ Photographs ] (Japan) Farsari Fine album of 61 photographs by A. Farsari & Co.,Yokohama, all but the montage title page delicately hand-colored, of Japan and its people including voluntary and judicial Hara-Kiri; two group portraits of the Ainu people; betto with tattooed back; the Mikado and Empress; a samurai; four studies of geisha hairstyles: a flower peddler; sumo wrestlers; and a Buddhist procession. Albumen prints, 7.5 x 9.5inches or the reverse, mounted one per page recto and verso, most titled and numbered in the negative Oblong folio, black and gilt lacquer covers with ivory inlay, front cover decorated with a scene of a woman being pulled in a rickshaw past Mt. Fuji; lacking backstrip and some inlay. 1880s