With 50 mounted hand-colored albumen photographs, each measuring 3½”x5½”. (Oblong 12mo) 5¼x7¼, accordion folded Japanese lacquer album, with hand-painted designs in various colors including gold, shows two porters holding a palanquin with a seated woman, each of the threesome have carved ivory faces, Mt. Fuji in the background, flower designs on the back cover.

A very nice eclectic album giving the flavor of Japan during her pre-modern period. The first half is of portraits of the common Japanese people at their various daily activities such as dancing, playing music, games, cooking, street entertainers, doctor, sleeping, weaving sandals, farm scenes, a mother and daughter, washing Kimono, Sumo wrestlers, Samurai, women at various chores, many elaborately dressed in Kimono. The verso has 25 other scenes out of doors, rikisha man, in Yokohama's Bund, cherry blossoms, Edo castle, Oji, Nikko, lakes, temples, waterfalls, Great Buddha at Kamakura, vendor shops, Enoshima, tea picking, Kyoto views. With an important photos of men setting up electric poles for electricity in a pre-electric Japan. Nicely photographed by a professional, some photos have English titles, lettered in the negative.