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Illustrations of Japanese Life, 100 photos

Takashima (Suteta) and Kazumasa Ogawa. Illustrations of Japanese Life,

100 collotype plates with printed captions, original patterned endpapers heightened with gilt, original sewn patterned silk covers with coloured inlaid pictorial sections also on silk, g.e., folio, Yokohama [&c.], Kelly and Walsh Ltd., 1896.

***A fine example of the photographically illustrated books depicting Japanese costume and culture that were to prove such a popular subject in the West. The publisher states at the beginning "I send it out to the public feeling confident that no such gallery of photographs, giving the exact picture of every day life of the Japanese, has ever been presented before in one volume". Subjects include geisha girls, Buddhist & Shinto priests, sumo wrestlers, musicians, the tea drinking ceremony and cherry blossom..