With 50 loose hand-colored albumen photographs of Japan, each measuring about 8½”x10½”. Images all very clear and clean, hand-colored in a pastel wash.

A fascinating collection of 50 loose photographs, most likely the work of Kimbei, showing the best of Japan's beautiful natural scenery and the customs and traditions of the Japanese, clothing, hair styles, footwear, Kimono, interior house scenes, Sumo wrestler, jin-rickshaws, dancers, mealtime eating, at leisure, Japanese gardens, river and boating, business streets, etc. Includes a variety of scenes of people, cities, monuments, and religious shrines, including depictions of Kiyoto, Kobe, Kota and Kuknozan, Matsushita, Midzusawa, Biwa Lake, Honmoku, Kago, Miyanoshita Miyajima, Nikko, Otsu, Tenjintoge, Tokyo, Yokohama, etc. Also a nice selection of about 20 photographs of Japanese women and men in various daily activities. An interesting early perspective on Japan and the Japanese. Suitable for framing and display, a nice collectable group. Most with English captions in the lower corner in the negative, some also include a number.