Early Japanese images

175 Pages·1995·38.379 MB·English

by  Terry Bennett

EARLY
JAPANESE IMAGES

EARLY
JAPANESE IMAGES
Terry Bennett
Charles E. Tuttle Company
Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan
To Kishiko
Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.
of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan
with editorial offices at
2-6 Suido 1-chome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112
© 1996 by Charles E. Tuttle Publishing Co., Inc.
All rights reserved
LCC Card No. 95-61322
ISBN 0-8048-2029-5 (hardback)
ISBN 0-8048-2033-3 (softback)
First edition, 1996
Printed in Singapore
Table of Contents
List of Images 7
Acknowledgments 11
Preface 13
Reflections of the Rising Sun by Sebastian Dobson 15
Early Japanese Images 29
The Introduction of Photography to Japan 31
Early Western Photographers in Japan 33
Felice Beato 37 Baron Raimund von Stillfried-
Ratenicz 41 Adolfo Farsari 44
Early Japanese Photographers in Japan 46
Shimooka Renjo 47 Ueno Hikoma 48 Kusakabe
Kimbei 50 Tamamura Kozaburo 51 Ogawa
Kazumasa 52 Uchida Kuichi 54 Other Japanese
Photographers 56
Identifying Photographers5 Work 59
The Images 63
Notes on Selected Images 137
Appendix 1: Early Japanese Photographs 145
Appendix 2: Photographic Terms 161
Bibliography 163
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Notes: Japanese name order, i.e., surname followed by given name, is used within the text, except
for the few nineteenth-century photographers who adopted Western name order. Macrons, signi-
fying long vowels in romanized Japanese, are used with italicized words within the text.
The hemp-leaf border motif is from a traditional pattern found on women's wear.
List of Images
(Unless otherwise indicated, the images in the following list are regular photographs.)
1 (Frontispiece). Two women embracing, Stillfried page 2
2. Typical lacquered album 10
3. Edo Castle, Shimooka 12
4-6. Members of the first shogunal mission to Europe in London, Caldesi and Company 14
7. Ikeda Chikugo-no-kami, Gaspard Felix Tournachon (known as Nadar) 14
8. Shoemaker, Usui 27
9. Street vendor, Beato 28
10. Shimooka Renjo in later life, photographer unknown 30
11. Model wearing dance costume, Ogawa 62
12. Otometoge, near Mount Fuji, Kusakabe 64
13. Japanese woman, lithograph, Eliphalet Brown, Jr. 65
14. Shimazu Nariakira, daguerreotype, Ichiki Shiro 65
15. Island of Deshima, Beato 66
16. Dutch officials at Deshima, photographer unknown 66
17. Two Japanese women, stereograph, photographer unknown 67
18. Japanese and British legation, stereograph, photographer unknown 67
19. Japanese cemetery at Edo, stereograph, photographer unknown 67
20. Port of Kanagawa, stereograph, photographer unknown 68
21. American legation in Edo, stereograph, photographer unknown 68
22. Town and bay of Kanagawa, stereograph, photographer unknown 68
23. Two officials, carte-de-visite photograph, Parker 69
24. Woman wearing haori coat, carte-de-visite photograph, Parker 70
25. Woman with umbrella, carte-de-visite photograph, Parker 70
26. Nagasaki, stereograph, Burger 71
27. Oiran, or high-class courtesan, with attendant, stereograph, Burger 71
28. Japanese warrior, stereograph, Burger 71
29. Fruit seller, photographer unknown 72
30. Kojiki, or beggars, photographer unknown 72
31. Itinerant Japanese cobblers, photographer unknown 73
32. Umbrella maker's house, photographer unknown 73
33. Namamugi, on the Tokaido, Beato 74
34. The prince of Satsuma and his principal officers, Beato 74
35. Warrior in armor, Beato 75
36. Betto, or groom, tattooed, Beato 76
37. Group of Japanese, Beato 77
38. Boats at Nagasaki, Beato 77
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