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(JAPAN) kimbei, kusakabe Lovely album containing 101 hand-tinted photographs of the people and places of Japan including approximately 60 occupational portraits of geisha, coolies, street merchants, priests, and doctors; as well as landscapes, street scenes, and architectural views of Yokohama, Tokyo, Nikko, Osaka, Kyoto, and more. Albumen prints, 8x101/4 inches (20.3x26 cm.) and the reverse, with printed caption labels on the mounts. Oblong folio, black lacquer with ivory inlay and gilt-pictorial embellishments depicting a man pulling a woman in a rickshaw with Mount Fuji in the distance, minor wear to the spine; Kimbei's studio label on the front pastedown; all edges gilt. 1880s
