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48 hand-colored albumen photographs, 8x10¼", affixed on rectos and versos of 10¼x13" album leaves. Album with red lacquer covers painted in colors with landscape scenes. The upper cover has three carved ivory cranes onlaid amidst bamboo and blossoms; the lower cover shows a fan and box in blossoming branches, with two insects with mother-of-pearl bodies. All edges gilt.

Lovely album in the ornate lacquer covers. The photographs depict various scenes around Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Nikko, including Ueno, Fujiyama, temples, gardens, tea-houses, Hakone, market-places, and women in scenes of singing, instrument-playing, and coiffure. The hand-coloring is bright.