KIMBEI KUSAKABE (1841 1934) Elegant album with 60 delicately

Sale 2240 - Lot 2

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KIMBEI, KUSAKABE (1841-1934)
Elegant album with 60 delicately hand-colored photographs, comprising occupationals as well as landscape and cityscape scenes of Yokohama and Kyoto, and various ceremonies, lavish temples and geishas. Hand-colored mounted albumen prints, each approximately 8x10 1/4 inches (20.3x26 cm.), and the reverse, each with a caption, in English, on a typed label below the image area, and some with an inventory number in the negative. Oblong folio, black lacquer covers depicting a woman riding in a hand-pulled carriage with ivory inlay (lacking the woman's face) and gilt highlights, the leather backstrip partially perished and detached; with Kimbei's purple oval hand stamp on the front and rear pastedowns. Circa 1885-1889

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The address on Kimbei's stamp, "36 Benten Dori Tokohama," references the location of his studio from 1885-1889.