Circa 1880s large photo album filled with (47) original albumen prints – most hand-colored – of Japanese scenes by photographers Kusakabe Kimbei (1841-1934) and Felice Beato (1832-1909). Kimbei worked as a colorist early in his career.
Subjects include geisha, sumo wrestlers, a staged harakiri scene, Kabuki actors with weapons, street acrobats, vendors; pilgrims; “Palanquin on Snowing”; the morning prayer of a Buddhist priest; a funeral procession; a Shinto offering to a god; workers transplanting rice; workers in a tea plantation.
Scenes around Nikko, Japan including the Great Gate, Chiusenji Lake, Sanjinko, Karamon Iyeyasu; Iyeyasu’s Tomb; Ishidan stairs; the moveable light; carvings; pagoda; shrine for Matsuri; wooden image at Nitemon; rural roads; Owaki-Dani; a view of Mt. Fuji (Fujisan in Hakone); Westerners at Buddha Hakone statue; a man seated before Yumoto Waterfall; view of Yokohama; Goriki; interior of Hachiman at Kamakura.
