JAPON - ADOLFO FARSARI 1841-1898 - REIJI ESAKI 1845-1910 - T - Lot 136

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JAPON - ADOLFO FARSARI 1841-1898 - REIJI ESAKI 1845-1910 - T - Lot 136
JAPON - ADOLFO FARSARI 1841-1898 - REIJI ESAKI 1845-1910 - TOSHI ENAMI 1859-1929 Album featuring views of Japan, mainly of geishas, ca.1880-1890. Geishas playing with balls, reading a love letter, in kimono, on a boat, singing, in duets and in groups, in winter dress, travelers, dancing at the tea house and indoors (kappore), walking in the snow, whispering, eating, sewing, two friends, on a rickshaw in Hikone, at the Summer House, in the garden of Lespedeza temple, under cherry blossoms; stores; Kyoto: Yojyo, young nursemaid, rope dance, woman with parasol in rickshaw pulled by coolie, wheat threshing, cotton spinning, clothes washing, children playing and couple. Photographs. Album comprising 50 color-enhanced albumin prints, most by Farsari. The album's margins are illustrated with numerous watercolor drawings of geishas, landscapes and flowers. The album's red lacquer cover features a photograph of Mount Fuji near Tagonoura Bridge by Uchida Kuichi (1844-1875). Images: approx. 27 x 21 cm; album: 32.3 x 41 cm
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