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(PHOTOGRAPHY -- JAPAN.) Album of approximately 130 hand-tinted albumen prints. 4x6 inch format, neatly arranged and loosely corner-mounted to black album sheets. Oblong folio, 12x16 1/2 inches, cord-stitched pictorial patterned cloth, light wear, several leaves detached at gutter; photographs fine; "Collection of Japanese pictures arranged by F.W. Woolrich" inscribed on front pastedown. Japan, late nineteenth-century
Exceptional album of colorized photographs offering a pleasant variety of Japanese subjects: Mt. Fuji, landscapes and gardens, temples, shrines and statuary, the Torii Gate, geisha and intimate interior scenes, ceremonies and festivals, rice production, tea gardens, local manufacturing and merchant goods, life-phases of the silkworm, and sumo wrestling are a few of the traditional themes.
