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Japan
Japanese portraits

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Photographers: Adolfo Farsari (1841-1898) and unknown. Japanese portraits. 1880s-1890s. 12 hand-colored albumen prints. Each ca. 13,2 x 9 cm or reverse. Some numbered and titled in the negative in the lower margin; most annotated and dated in blue ink on the verso.

The group comprises staged studio and outdoor genre portraits of Japanese men and women in traditional dress, including several portraits of geishas, a sumo wrestler, a kabuki actor holding a sword, a porter carrying a shrine, sedan chair bearers, and various domestic scenes.