Japan – Girl with Samisen or Gozenobo, titled "Beggar (Gozenobo)"
Yokohama, Japan: c 1880's. Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/4 inches x 7 3/4 (260 x 198 mm), numbered B 1221 and captioned in negative at lower right. Unmounted; housed in an archival mat with clear mounting corners.
A playful image of a young girl, maybe a geisha apprentice, pretending to be a blind itinerant minstrel playing the Samisen.
Item number: 1768
Price: $350.00
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