Japan – Kasuga at Nara
Tokyo, Japan: c 1890. Hand-tinted albumen print, 7 5/8 x 10 inches (200 x 255 mm), pasted on light album board, numbered 956 and captioned in negative at lower right; housed in an archival mat with clear mounting corners.
[Bennett CDG, p. 153; Nagasaki University Library; Catalog Number : 4142].
This photo captures four deer and two men as well as a man and a deer afar. The four deer in the foreground could be three female and one fawn. The point of the shot is about 350m west of Nino-torii Gate by Umadome Bridge when facing west.
TAMAMURA Kozaburo (1856-19??) In 1867 he began a seven-year apprenticeship with the Edo photographer Kanamaru Genzo. He then left in 1874 to establish his own studio, also in Tokyo, and then moved his operations to Yokohama in 1883. In 1896 he was at the peak of his fame when he received an order from the Boston publishing house J. B. Millet for more than one million photographs.
He also received other lucrative commissions, including international orders for educational lantern slides. His work won many domestic and international awards. Tamamura's photographic enterprise was a huge commercial success. His early albums contain, among others, the work of Yamamoto, Yokohama, Matsusaburo, and probably Kanamaru Genzo. [Bennett, Terry. Old Japanese Photographs: Collectors' Data Guide. London: Quaritch, 2006.].
Condition: Near fine.
Item number: 1285
Price: $400.00
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