JAPAN - GLASS PLATES - TEIJIRO TAKAGI - TOSHI ENAMI 1859-192 - Lot 68

JAPAN - GLASS PLATES - TEIJIRO TAKAGI - TOSHI ENAMI 1859-1929 - TAMAMURA KOZABURO 1856-1923 Important set of glass plates depicting animated scenes, monuments and landscapes of Japan, ca.1915. Photographs. Approx. 105 positive glass plates, 98 in color with captions below the image and authors' names in the lower or upper margin, and 7 in black and white. 3 plates do not feature Japanese views, but the throne of the last emperor in Peking, a Chinese temple interior and feluccas on the Nile, all with Takagi credits on the mount. In a period wooden box with mortise-and-tenon mounting and Shima Enaga and leaf decoration. Cherry dance, procession of Buddhist priests, funeral, theater actors, cormorant fishing in Gifu, Mount Fuji from Lake Hakone, tea ceremony, Karasaki, festivals in Kyoto: procession of the Heian aristocracy (Aoi Matsuri) and several views of the Jidai matsuri (men and women in costume, processions, horses...), young child in Nikko garden, geishas on a boat, serving tea in Yumoto in front of Tamadare falls, eating, playing koto, among flowers, Shimabara women, junks on Seto inland sea, Chionin temple, geishas sewing, greeting each other at the gate, Nijo and Nagoya castles, lotus at Nishi-Otani, Sanjusangendo, Otsu : cherry blossoms; street in Ikao, Japanese women carrying their children, autumn hues in Takao, Tokyo : Ueno park entrance, street scene, irises and wisteria, Lake Biwa, Yoshiwara women, Daibutsu in Kamakura, Higashi-Hongwanji gate, sacred rocks in Futami, rickshaw on the road to Miyanoshita, umbrella and lantern maker, Japanese garden, kago on Hakone road, Yomeimon, interior of a Japanese house, Kinkakuji temple, Heian Jingu garden, Kiyomidzu temple pagoda, boat on Hodzu rapids. Images: 6.2 x 8.7 cm; plates: 8.2 x 10 cm; box: 24 x 31.5 x 13 cm Takagi Teijiro, based in Kobe, began working with photographer Tamamura Kozaburo in 1903. He bought out his predecessor in 1904 and continued to work under his predecessor's name, then under his own name from 1914.