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KIMBEI, KUSAKABE (1841-1934) Lovely lacquer album containing 50 delicately hand-colored photographs of Japan, with views of gardens and temples, studies of geishas and other occupationals. Hand-colored albumen prints, 8x10 1/4 inches (20.3x26 cm.), and the reverse, mounted, all with the original tissue guards; with a caption, in English, and an inventory number on many. Oblong folio, black lacquer with gold sketched fisherman and town, and a butterfly; with Kimbei's hand stamp on the front pastedown; contemporary backstrip; all edges gilt. 1880s
