Old Asia Photography

Catalogue: Old Japan Catalogue #26


Ref: OJ26
Author: Old Japan
39 pages, each 297 x 207mm; includes 35 photographic items for sale: Souvenir Photo Albums from the studios of Usui Shusaburo, Stillfried & Andersen, an impressive deluxe album from Suzuki Shinichi II, an exceptionally rare album of hand-coloured albumen photos from Ogawa Kazumasa containing 38 of the geisha who participated in the 1891 beauty contest in Tokyo, Enami, Kajima Seibei and Kusakabe Kimbei ; 183 very interesting glass-lantern slides; 13 early portraits of Ainu of which 8 are by Stilfried; 7 interesting photographs of Yokohama; others of Kobe (Typhoon), Tokyo and Hakone; portrait photographs from the Shanghai studio of Ueno Hikoma; stereoview of the 1860 Japanese embassy to the United States; 2 ca. 1870 stereoviews of Shimoda; 14 early stereos of Yokohama and area; 4 of Tokyo.
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