Los 4055

Japan
Japanese genre scenes and portraits

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 28.11.2026

Photographers: Esaki Reiji (1845-1910), Shin-e-do, Kobe (active ca. 1894-1901). Japanese genre scenes and portraits. 1890s. 5 hand-colored albumen prints. Each ca. 26,2 x 20,4 cm or reverse. One with oval violet distributor’s stamp on verso: “PHOTOGRAPH DEPOT / SHIN-E-DO / KOBE JAPAN”; two captioned and numbered in the negatives: “1609 PLAYING GO” and “1517 GIRLS PLAYING KOTO AND SAMISEN”; one further print numbered “263”.

A cohesive group of Meiji-period export photographs, depicting women in kimono in a formal portrait and in carefully composed scenes of music, tea drinking and Go. The hand-coloring is remarkably delicate, reserving subtle accents for textiles, hair ornaments, furnishings and painted screens while preserving the soft tonal modelling of the albumen prints. Such photographs were made for the international souvenir market, presenting Japanese dress, domestic interiors and cultivated pastimes in a composed, decorative visual language.