[Portrait of a Japanese dancer and musician.] Photographer: Tamamura, Kohzaburo
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait, taken against a painted backdrop, of two young Japanese women, one standing in a dance attitude, the other seated on the floor accompanying her on a stringed instrument.
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait of two sumo wrestlers, posed as at the start of a bout, with the referee standing in the background.
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Half-length portrait of a Japanese man, seen from behind to show the tattooing covering the whole of his back and arms.
[Portrait of six young Japanese women on a terrace overlooking a river.] Photographer: Tamamura, Kohzaburo
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of six young Japanese women, seated on mats on the terrace of a house above a river. The photograph, using a patented gold process, is inset into the upper board of the album, within a lacquer border.
Lucas Collection: Photographic record of the world tour of Charles James and Morton P. Lucas, 1877-79. Volume 5, Japan (part 1). Photographer(s): Stillfried, Raimund von
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Large folio album measuring 565 mm x 460 mm, titled in gilt on front cover: Japan. I. C. J. L. The volume contains 68 albumen prints, many hand-coloured, purchased from commercial studios and mounted recto only on the album pages, with neat handwritten captions accompanying most of the photograp...