Artist Index: Matsuchi, Nakajima

Japanese bronze vases with and flower and plant arrangements. Circa 1890. 34 albumen prints, each mounted to board in clamshell box. Each ca. 25 x 20,3 cm (34,3 x 27,4 cm). Most with photographer's studio stamp on mount verso.

The Japanese photographer Nakajima Matsuchi, renowned during the 1880s-1890s, was a founding member of the Nihon Shashin Kyokai (Japanese Photographic Society) in 1889. His exquisitely hand-colored lantern slides, created in collaboration with his wife, Sonoko, received numerous accolades, including recognition at the Japanese National Exhibitions of 1877 and 1881. Although Nakajima worked with various photographic formats, including stereographs, cartes de visites, and cabinet-sized photographs, his large-format work remains particularly rare. – Some buckling and foxing on mounts, some slight fading along edges of prints, otherwise in very good condition.

Lit.: Terry Bennett. Photography in Japan 1853-1912. North Clarendon, Vermont. 2006. see pp. 182-184.