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180OGAWA, KAZUMASA (1860-1929) & KASHIMA, SEIBEI (1866-1924) Album containing 50 delicately hand-colored Japanese photographs by Ogawa and Kashima, with compelling views of street tradesmen, lovely studies of geishas, multiple views of flower gardens (including the Iris Garden in Kyoto and Milo Garden in Tokyo), plus jugglers, temples, the Imperial Gate in Tokyo, picturesque scenes of boatmen, and more. Albumen prints, 8x10 3/4 inches (20.3x26.9 cm.), nearly all with an inventory number and caption, in English, in the plate. Folio, red lacquer boards with gilt-highlighed pictorial fans (one with a scene of Mt. Fuji) and a vertical band showing a bird alighting onto a branch; in the original box, with patterned cloth covers (one panel detached). Late 1880s
Ogawa's personal history is interesting, and worth mentioning. In 1882, he moved to Boston where he took courses in portrait photography and the dry plate process. He also studied collotype printing at the Albert Type Company. Upon his return to Japan, in 1884, Ogawa opened the first photographic studio in Tokyo.
