JAPAN - Lot 67

JAPAN Album featuring views and animated scenes of Japan, ca.1915-1920. Photographs. Album of 69 vintage silver prints, including 1 enhanced with color. Torii at Itsukushima-jinja (Shinto shrine at Hatsukaichi), sunset over the sea, Japanese women in front of a boat, fishing trip, porter, fish merchant, woman with her back to the sea, bathing in the river, sumo wrestling, Japanese family in front of a mill, straw gathering, irrigation of rice fields, Mount Fuji, procession with mikoshi, stores in Asakusa (Tokyo), high dignitary, yoitomake (earth-packing technique), meal, women amid parasols, fan-making, strollers in the rain, woman cooking, bringing tea, geishas, man holding katana, archery, tattoos including 1 enhanced print, ca.1915-1920. Images: 7.2 x 5.2 to 15 x 10.5 cm; album: 24 x 32 cm