JAPAN - Lot 59

JAPAN Album presenting the road from Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto from Nakasendo through the inland mountains of Japan and the Tokaido road via the southern coast of Japan, landscapes, animated scenes, portraits, monuments, 1886. Photographs. Accordion album of 50 color-enhanced albumen prints, some attributed to Kusakabe Kimbei, label with typed caption in English below image. Cloth cover missing. Family in Garden's at Totsuka, Kamakura, Nakasendo road, Torii Pass, Yoshinaka Temple in Miyanokoshi, Fukushima, Kakehashi, Kisogawa river, Tea House Nezame in Kiso, waterfall, Country children, Old Woman 102 years at Hanaoka Village Shinshiw July 1886, Tokaido road, Tomioka, Sakaigi, Totsuka, Tea house, Yenoshima, busy street, cave, Hase, Kamakura, Daibutsu, Shinto temple Hachiman, Temple bell at Kawasaki, Kanasawa, Katase temple. Images: approx. 19 x 26 cm; album: 27 x 35 cm