JAPAN - ESAKI REIJI 1845-1910 - Lot 87

JAPAN - ESAKI REIJI 1845-1910 Album featuring portraits and landscapes of Japan, mostly by Esaki Reiji, ca.1880. Photographs. Album with 62 albumen prints, 60 of which are color-enhanced, some with captions in the images. Traces of glue on some prints. Images: approx. 20 x 26.5 cm; album: 24.8 x 32.5 cm Ainu group, execution of the "Namoa" pirates in Kowloon on May 11, 1891, tea ceremony, geisha making a bonzai, reproducing the monkeys of wisdom, dancing, at the tea house, Kioto women, with parasols, in Jinrikisha, Hakone, Tokyo : house of prostitutes in Yoshi-Wara, Uyeno temple, tattooed, cherry blossoms, Kameido wisteria, iris garden, lotus, Yomeimon in Nikko, Buddhist and Shinto priests, Kioto, Nagasaki, Bund in Kobe, street vendors, plantations, young nursemaid, odd jobs; Singapore: pepper field.