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This fascinating Japanese photography book features over 140 images taken between 1853 and 1905 by the most important local and foreign photographers then working in Japan.
Almost one-fourth of the images are hand colored, superb examples of a rich art form long since vanished. The Japan of this book too has disappeared, but author and compiler Terry Bennett has put together a unique portrait of the country at perhaps its most decisive turning point, a nation about to abandon its traditional ways and enter the modern age.
Important features of Early Japanese Images include the following:
- A historical overview of the years 1853-1912
- The story of early Western photographers in Japan
- The story of early Japanese photographers
- Over 100 images reproduced in original sepia tones
- Over 40 images reproduced as originally handcolored
- An invaluable index that identifies the photographers
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Acknowledgments
There are many people I would like to thank for their help and support in writing this book. Clark Worswick first suggested the idea, and it was he who inspired my interest in early Japanese photography when I came across his volume Japan Photographs: 1854-1905 sixteen years ago.
There are many collectors in the United States, Japan, and Europe who share my interest in nineteenth-century Japanese photography and from whom I have learned much. These include Dietmar Siegert, Fred Sharf, Dr. Henry Rosin, and Professor Himeno Jun'ichi. I am grateful to Shimazu Kimiyasu for permission to reproduce his ancestor's photograph and to Izakura Naomi for translations from Japanese texts, both Meiji and modern. My secretary, Maureen Playford, is to be thanked for performing the time-consuming task taken by typing the manuscript.
I am indebted to Elena Dal Pra and Fred Sharf for information on Adolfo Farsari. I am also grateful to Hans Schreiber and Dr. Bernhard Stillfried for information on Baron von Stillfried. I offer a special thanks to collector and researcher Torin Boyd, who provided me with ideas and access to his collection of photos from the bakumatsu, or last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the Meiji era. He has also identified for the first time a number of photographs taken by the elusive Shimooka Renjo.
Sebastian Dobson wrote the introductory essay and a number of the captions. He gave much encouragement and constructive criticism and helped with the translation of some troublesome Japanese names. He also assisted in searching out some obscure Japanese sources that yielded new and surprising information.
Appendix
Early Japanese Photographs
Following is a list of representative early images and the photographers who likely took them. Each photo is identified by a number and title. Some numbers on images included letters, e.g., A102; here these appear with the number shown first, i.e., 102 A. Some, though not all, original spelling mistakes in titles have been corrected. (Some early photographers deliberately misspelled words!) At first I had wanted to depict the title as it was originally rendered, but upside-down and back-to-front lettering proved too troublesome to include. Also, note that some early photos are identified with titles that can vary slightly with the actual image. Photographers often modified or completely changed titles and, to a lesser extent, numbers. Finally, I admit to a certain inconsistency in rendering of titles that I cannot adjust because some photographs are no longer in my possession.
Brackets around a title mean that the title did not appear on the image but is one I have written. An ellipsis marks a title that has been shortened for this list only. A question mark after a photographer's name indicates that the attribution is likely but not verified.
The following initials represent the names of early photographers whose work is included in the appendix:
F Farsari | OK Ogawa Kazumasa | Shin Shin-E-Do |
I Izawa | OS Ogawa Sashichi | Su Suzuki |
Ka Kashima | R Ryo-Un-Do | T Tamamura |
K Kusakabe | 5 Stillfried | Ue Ueno |
Na Nakajima | Sh Shimooka | U Usui |
| NO. | TITLE PHOTOGRAPHER |
Imaichi Nikko Road Ka?/OK? | |
Railway Iron Bridge at Nagara K | |
Red Lacquered Bridge, Nikko U | |
Sacred Bridge Nikko OK | |
Telegraph and Post Office at Nagoya K | |
Workmen's Holiday K | |
| 2 M | Restaurant, Kyoto F |
| 2 N | The Garden of Sweat Flag in Horikiri at Tokyo F |
[Portrait of Smiling Woman with Ring on Marriage Finger] T | |
Spinning Thread Company at Atsuta near Nagoya K | |
The Bridge at Biwajima, Nagoya K | |
| 4 D | Fuji from Kashiwabara Shin |
| 4 J | Nikko Moddo Fall K |
Dancing Party K | |
| 5 A | The Sacred and Temporary Bridges K |
| 5 B | Ikao K |
| 5 B | Oriental Hotel Kobe Shin |
| 5 F | Pine Tree Kinkakuji, Kyoto K |
| 5 I | The Sacred Bridge K |
| 5 O | Tonosawa T |
| 6 X | Yokohama Park F |
Jinrikshaw K | |
The Castle Sh | |
| 7 A | Nunobiki Water Falls at Kobe F |
[Four Young Women Sitting on Veranda] T | |
Kago, the Traveling Chair K | |
| 8 G | Road to Tonosawa T |
| 8 X | Yokohama Park F |
Temple Front Nikko OS | |
| 9 B | Castle Rocks Mioji K |
| 9 C | Fuji from Joshiwara K |
| 9 L | Ise, MiotoSeki K |
Girls at Home K | |
Pagoda Nikko OS | |
View from Fudzimidai Hakone Fudzimi Sh? | |
| 10 B | Asakusa Park at Tokyo T |
| 10 G | Shirabe Cascade Dogashima K |
| 10 O | Hakone T |
Bank at Nagara K | |
Front Gate Nikko OS | |
Playing Samisen K | |
[Three Young Women Standing, Holding Hands] T | |
| 11 A | The Sanbutsudo, Kyoto K |
| 11 H | Shampooing K |
Front Gate Nikko OS | |
| 12 L | Nagoya Castle K |
Crushed by Earthquake K | |
Girl in Winter Costume K | |
Stable Nikko OS | |
[Two Men Top Knotted, Sitting, Eating] T | |
| 13 A | Ikuta Temple at Kobe F |
| 13 A | The Pagoda, Iyeyasu K |
Buddhist Priests K | |
Houses in Gifuken Broken by Earthquake K | |
Houses at Gifuken (Earthquake) K | |
American Hatoba R | |
Wind Costume K | |
| 16 O | Geisha Giris F |
Gate of Chionin Temple, Kioto F | |
Head Temple of Nichiren Sh | |
Nikko Temple OS | |
| 17 P | Singing Girls F |
Nikko U | |
| 18 G | Ojigoku K |
| 18 J | Yumoto, Nikko K |
Japanese Funeral K | |
| 19 L | Daibutsu K |
Funeral Service ... K | |
Revolving Lantern... OS | |
| 20 F | Rokakudo Temple K |
| 20 O | [Three Young Women with Heads Together] F |
| 20 U | Singing Girls F |
Graveyard K |
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