1841 Japan – Kimya-Bashi (Bridge), Nagasaki with two rickshaws on bridge. Original Photograph / Photographer unattributed.

Japan – Kimya-Bashi (Bridge), Nagasaki with two rickshaws on bridge.

Yokohama, Japan: c 1890. Hand-tinted albumen print, 7 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches (200 x 260 mm); hand numbered 64 in negative and captioned at lower left; light cockling at top left corner; unmounted, housed in an archival mat with clear mounting corners.

[Nagasaki University Library, Catalog Number : 3860].

Furumachi-bashi Bridge over Nakashima River and Koeiji Temple.
Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835 – 1901), the Japanese educator, philosopher, writer, entrepreneur, samurai, and founder of Keio University, stayed at this temple in 1854 while briefly studying in Nagasaki.

Condition: Very good+.

Item number: 1841

Price: $550.00

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