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In 1878, just 19 years after Japan opened it first ports to the world, and a mere ten years after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, an adventurous 47-year old woman from the UK set out to explore the interior of Japan. The country was virtually unknown to Westerners, and a woman traveling only with a guide seemed outrageous. Everybody advised her not to, but she went anyway and wrote this unique and vivid journal of what she saw and experienced.
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The Adventure of Japanese Photography 1860 - 1890
In 22 pages of text, Claudia Delank, a specialist in East Asian Art, covers the photography of 19th century Japan. Celebrated photographers like Felice Beato, Adolpho Farsari, Hikoma Ueno, Kimbei Kusakabe, Kihei Tamamura and Kazumasa Ogawa are introduced as they create images of Japan for a Western audience eager to find out more about this as yet largely unknown country.
Many of these images were specifically staged in studios to please Western expectations. They were then hand-colored and compiled in richly ornamented lacquer albums. This books features 90 full page footnoted plates of hand colored albumen photographs from the March Collection. In many cases the photographer is mentioned as well. What makes this book especially attractive are the rare albumen photographs of flowers.
It is a true delight to see these beautiful images from a time when traveling to Japan was still a real adventure.
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OldPhotosJapan.com — a photo blog about old Japan that reads like a book and works like an archive. All the photographs are from the Kjeld Duits Collection and available for licensing. Contact us when you need historical, or current, photos of Japan for your newspaper article, book, documentary, interior design, room decoration, package design, advertising or other project.