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Album of portraits, interior views, and exterior views of cities, villages and foreign settlements, temples and temple structures, fortifications, harbours, the tokaido, rural life, and landscapes in Japan
People:
  • Hikoma Uyeno (photographer)
  • Felice Beato (photographer)
  • Baron Raimund von Stillfried (photographer)
  • Stillfried & Andersen (photographic studio)
  • Kuichi Uchida (photographer)
  • Unknown (photographer)
  • Stillfried & Andersen (printer)
  • Takatora Todo (role unspecified)
  • Hisatomo Tanji (role unspecified)
  • Shotoku Taishi (role unspecified)
  • Iemitsu Tokugawa (role unspecified)
  • Ienobu Tokugawa (role unspecified)
  • Yoshimitsu Ashikaga (role unspecified)
  • Munehiro Kora (role unspecified)
  • Munenaka Ikegami (role unspecified)
  • Kakushin-ni (role unspecified)
  • R. Henry Brunton (role unspecified)
  • Goro-emon Ono (role unspecified)
  • Masakatsu Heinouchi (role unspecified)
  • Yoshimune Tokugawa (role unspecified)
  • Ieyasu Tokugawa (role unspecified)
Title:

Album of portraits, interior views, and exterior views of cities, villages and foreign settlements, temples and temple structures, fortifications, harbours, the tokaido, rural life, and landscapes in Japan

Date:

published between 1877 and 1879 or between 1877 and 1885

Form:
photographs
Quantity / Object type:
1 album(s)
Technique and media:

Albumen silver prints hand-coloured albumen silver prints

Dimensions:

album (closed): 31 x 39 x 5,7 cm comps. (range): 19 to 28,4 x 19,2 to 29,4 cm secondary supports (bound): 29,9 x 38,4 cm

Reference number:

PH1982:0346:001-100

Point of View:
  • partial views
  • exterior views
  • interior views
Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Contemporary binding consists of green leather-covered spine and floral patterned gold and brown brocade cloth-covered boards with gilt trim, and gold patterned endpapers and flyleaves. Album comprises 100 albumen silver prints, of which 65 are hand-coloured, mounted on 50 white cardboard pages.

Inscription:

imprinted - on PH1982:0346:001, on the original, c.: "VIEWS & COSTUMES / OF / JAPAN / BY / STILLFRIED & ANDERSEN. / YOKOHAMA."; and throughout: with medallions, dates and other motifs

Location:

Eno Island; Kanagawa-ken; Japan;

Subject:
  • architecture
  • landscape architecture
  • engineering
  • military
  • ornament
  • portrait
  • sculpture
  • topographic
Subject Descriptive Terms:
  • gardens
  • complexes
  • entrance
  • trees
  • fences
  • people
  • treasury
  • mirror
  • stairs
  • gateways
  • houses
  • figures (representations)
  • tablecloth
  • stores
  • balconies
  • statues
  • palaces
  • farmers
  • farmland
  • fretwork
  • hats
  • piers (supporting elements)
  • rivers
  • roofs
  • ships
  • shop signs
  • temples
  • verandas
  • hills
  • mausoleums
  • path
  • valley (landform)
  • ceramics
  • bridges (built works)
  • buildings
  • men (male humans)
  • rock
  • watchtower
  • sign
  • thatched roofs
  • streets
  • women
  • tiled roofs
  • castle
  • moats
  • lanterns (lighting devices)
  • cascade
  • islands
  • isthmus
  • town
  • coast-lines
  • sea
  • harbours
  • building stone
  • roads
  • vegetation
  • stone wall
  • bamboo
  • groves (plant communities)
  • columns (architectural elements)
  • ponds
  • mountains
  • torii
  • ladder
  • paving stones
  • beach
  • dwellings
  • porches
  • park (recreation area)
  • hotel (public accommodation)
  • lakes
  • building site
  • plants (vegetation)
  • cliffs
  • armchair
  • furniture
  • restaurants
  • balustrades
  • boats
  • gorges (landforms)
  • aprons (protective wear)
  • arable land
  • archery
  • armour (protective wear)
  • bay (body of water)
  • bow (weapon)
  • cane
  • cape (landform)
  • caskets (personal gear)
  • cities
  • clogs
  • cocked hat
  • costume
  • coulee
  • cropland
  • emperor
  • empress
  • equipment
  • family
  • fencers
  • ferry
  • fire tower (watchtower)
  • hand mirrors
  • headgear
  • infant
  • inn
  • inscription
  • judge
  • koto
  • lighthouse
  • loincloth
  • luggage
  • medicine
  • military uniform
  • outerwear
  • palanquin
  • parasol
  • patient
  • physician
  • pools
  • prayer beads
  • priest
  • punt
  • quay
  • religious objects
  • rickshaws
  • robes
  • screens (furniture)
  • sea-shores
  • sedan chairs
  • settlements
  • shamisen
  • shelter
  • shores (landforms)
  • shoro
  • spectacles bridge
  • spiral stair
  • staff (walking stick)
  • stone lanterns (lighting devices)
  • swords
  • tattoos
  • tea services
  • title page
  • topiary
  • tracts (land areas)
  • umbrella
  • water well
  • weapons
  • whistle
  • wrestlers (athletes)
  • pagodas (buildings)
  • waterfalls
  • carvings
  • villages
  • farms
  • farmhouses
  • defensive walls
  • embankments
  • motifs
  • avenues
  • arch bridges
  • footpaths
  • gutters (roadside elements)
  • hairstyles
  • carrying poles
  • fans (costume accessories)
  • arrows
  • backdrops
  • buckets (vessels)
  • Buddhas
  • medallions (ornament areas)
  • volcanoes
  • kimonos
  • warriors
  • obis
  • bearers
  • fishermen (people)
  • chests of drawers
  • daimyo residences
Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
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