Research Catalog

Title

[Album of photographs of Japan] [graphic].

Publication

187-?-188-?

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

1 album (172 photographic prints) : albumen, some col.; 21.5 x 28 cm. or smaller in album approx. 34 x 43 cm.

Summary

Views of Japan: temples or shrines, some views possible at Nikko, including details of the buildings, view of bells and stone lanterns and details of screens and woodcarvings, including view of carved monkeys in "See no evil, hear not evil, speak no evil" pose, a carved cat; bronze Buddha, Kōtokuin, in Kamakura; a pagoda; toriis; Yokohama: views of foreign residences and buildings, streets and bridges, monument; views of sericulture, silk winding and weaving; landscapes including waterfalls, Mt. Fuji, agricultrual scenes including planting and harvesting rice, waterways including boats pulled up on shore, forest scenes; portraits of individuals including man and woman in winter clothes, women in various poses, including reading, writing, paper folding with umbrella, arranging hair, with musical instruments, washing clothes, in rickshaws and kagos, cooking, dancing; men (some tattoed), including plant sellers, sandal maker, basket sellers, umbrella maker, playing a game, having hair arranged, monks praying or meditating; man attending woman in bed [massage?]; children with women and practicing calligraphy; Ainu: group of women in front of thatched buildings, and studio portrait of man holding bow and arrow, with boy; theatrical scenes; portraits of sumo wrestlers, and a view of a match showing wrestlers and spectators in western style straw hats.

Subjects

• Albumen prints
• Monks > Japan
• Photographic prints
• Ainu
• Albumen prints > colored
• Bridges > Japan
• Wrestling > Japan
• Men > Japan
• Peddlers > Japan
• Occupations > Japan
• Rickshaws > Japan
• Rice paddies > Japan
• Fuji, Mount (Japan)
• Women > Japan
• Three monkeys (Motif)
• Monkeys in art
• Dwellings > Japan
• Agriculture > Japan
• Yokohama-shi (Japan)
• Temples > Japan
• Albums
• Sericulture > Japan
• Shrines > Japan
• Boats > Japan
• Streets > Japan > Yokohama-shi
• Weaving > Japan
• Buddhas > Japan
• Kōtokuin (Kamakura-shi, Japan)
• Nikkō-shi (Japan)
• Sculpture > Japan
• Sumo

Genre/Form

• Albums.
• Albumen prints.
• Albumen prints – colored.
• Photographic prints.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Brown half-leather bound album with tabbed gilt-edge leaves. Leaves are numbered on verso, 1-35. Leaves 34 and 35 are in reverse order.
• Albumen prints are mounted both recto and verso. Small, mostly hand-colored views of scenes and people are mounted on recto, large b&w prints of a temple or temples on verso.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Provenance (note)

• Children's Room transfer, 1982.

Call Number

MFY++ 93-6332

Title

[Album of photographs of Japan] [graphic].

Imprint

187-?-188-?

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Provenance

Children's Room transfer, 1982.

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Research Call Number

MFY++ 93-6332