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Sakhalin
Views of Northern Japan and Sakhalin

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

Photographers: Kenzo Tamoto (1832-1912), Ivan Nikolaevich Krasnov (life dates unknown), and unknown. Views of Northern Japan and Sakhalin. 1870s-1890s. 25 albumen prints, mounted to album pages. Each between 9,3 x 13,2 cm and 20 x 26 cm (pages 26 x 34 cm). Bound in a black canvas album with leather spine and decorative enpapers.

This album documents indigenous communities and settlements in northern Japan and Sakhalin in the late 19th century. Numerous photographs depict Ainu villages with their characteristic thatched houses (chise), alongside scenes of daily life such as weaving, gathering seaweed, and carrying firewood. Several images likely represent Nivkh (historically referred to as Gilyak) inhabitants of Sakhalin, identifiable by distinctive dress and ornament, underscoring the region’s ethnographic diversity. The album also includes two photographs of Russian penal colonies on Sakhalin, one of which depicts the infamous Russian thief Sofia Blyuvshtein (“Sonya Golden Hand”) in shackles during her imprisonment on the island, where she was later visited by Anton Chekhov.