• Felice Beato (photographer)
• Baron Raimund von Stillfried (photographer)

Views of Japan

ca. 1869

Felice Beato was one of the first photographers to systematically survey Japan in his 'Photographic Views of Japan with Historical and Descriptive Notes' (1869), containing about one hundred landscapes. This present album does not have a title page but some of the photographs are also found in 'Views of Japan' and another Beato album from the CCA's collection (PH1981:0787:001-093). This present album shows 51 views of Japan in several villages, towns, places and countryside, such as Yokohama, the Tokaido link, Mayonashi, Hakoni, Fusi-Yama, Miyanoshita, Sakawa Nagawa, Gakaiso, Nagasaki, Eiyama, Harra, Omia, Narraiga, Miyanoshita, Tonosawa, Kamakura, Taikeins and Pappenburg. Also shown are peasants, girls, sumotori (wrestlers), northeners, officers, a musician, a doctor and patient, an executioner, firemen, a painter and a priest, etc. Captions with detailed annotations written by Beato's colleagues are pasted on to the facing pages. The photographer Baron Raimund Stillfried who also worked in Japan, acquired the stock and studio of Beato in 1877. A mixture of his own and Beato's work is contained in his subsequent albums, which makes it sometimes difficult to differentiate between a Beato and a Stillfried photograph (cf. Terry Bennett).

Albumen silver prints; albumen silver prints with hand-tinting

album: 35.3 x 48.5 x 3.8 cm secondary supports: 34.2 x 47.5 cm compositions (min.): 21.5 x 16 cm compositions (max.): 25 x 31.8 cm

PH1983:0516:001-051

• exterior views
• interior views

Red cloth covered boards with red leather covered spine and corners, gold gilding and lettering on boards and spine.

inscribed, imprinted and labelled

Japon

• architecture

• gardens
• temple
• houses
• statues
• road
• town
• mountains
• lake
• forests
• villages

Contient:

• PH1983:0516:001, View from the French Bluff, Yokohama, Japan, 1868
• PH1983:0516:002, View of Yokohama, showing bay, Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:003, View of the Tokaido road, Japan, 1863-1868
• PH1983:0516:004, View of the forest on Tokaido road, between Yokohama and Fujisawa, Japan, 1863-1868
• PH1983:0516:005, View of the Valley of Mayonashi, showing the Nakatsu River running through the tree-lined Miyagase valley, Japan , 1863-1868
• PH1983:0516:006, View of Miyanoshita, showing the peaks of the Hakone mountains in the distance, and on the right the Shiro-ma-no Taki or White Horse Fall, Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:007, View along the street in Hakone, Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:008, View of bridge leading to Hakone, with the Hakone mountains in the distance, Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:009, View of the baths with Hakone mountains in distance, Tonosawa, Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:010, View of Mount Fuji from Moriyama, Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:011, View of stream near the Tokaido road, Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:012, View of mayor of Harra and his family in garden, Harajuku, Japan, 1863-1868
• PH1983:0516:013, View of the Residence of the High Priest of Fusiyama at Omia, Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:014, View looking down a grassy hillside towards Lake Hakone, Japan , 1865-1868
• PH1983:0516:015, View of bronze statue depicting Jemo Sama (Jizō), Hakone Lake, Japan, 1863-1868
• PH1983:0516:016, View showing thatched cottages at Iiyama, Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:017, View of group of people in a garden by a tea house, Miyanoshita, Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:018, View of the baths in the Hakone mountains, Tonosawa, Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:019, View of the bronze statue of Dai Bouts (Great Buddha), Kamakura, Japan, 1863
• PH1983:0516:020, View of the Temple of Hatchiman (Tsurugaoka Hachimangū), Kamakura, Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:021, View of moat around the palace at Yedo, Edo (Tokyo), Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:022, View of burial ground of the Taikuns, Edo (Tokyo), Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:023, View of burial ground of the Taikuns, Edo (Tokyo), Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:024, View of inner moat at Yedo Castle, Edo (Tokyo), Japan, 1867-1868
• PH1983:0516:025, General View of Nagasaki, Japan, 1867-1868
• PH1983:0516:026, View of Pappenberg Island at the Entrance of the Bay of Nagasaki, Japan, about 1865
• PH1983:0516:027, View of stream lined with wooden houses along both sides of its banks, Nagasaki, Japan, 1863
• PH1983:0516:028, Exterior view of entrance to the main hall at Daionji Temple, Nagasaki, Japan, 1865
• PH1983:0516:029, View of tea house on the Tokaido road, showing a group of people standing on a bridge over river, near Nagasaki, Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:030, View of a group of people playing "Go" board game, Japan, 1868
• PH1983:0516:031, View of six people standing around an outdoor street refreshment stall, Japan, 1866-1867
• PH1983:0516:032, Full length portrait of a "dancing girl" with fan, Japan, 1866-1867
• PH1983:0516:033, Full length portrait of two women putting on an obi sash, Japan, 1866-1867
• PH1983:0516:034, Group portrait of representatives of Nio, the Japanese Hercules, Japan, 1866-1867
• PH1983:0516:035, View of Sumotori wrestlers with three onlookers, Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:036, Group portrait of Tycoon's officers in a garden, Japan, 1866-1867
• PH1983:0516:037, View of a group of men with Satsuma's General, Japan, 1866-1867
• PH1983:0516:038, Studio view of girl playing the koto, Japan, 1866-1867
• PH1983:0516:039, View of Japanese doctor and patient in studio, Japan, 1868
• PH1983:0516:040, View of "amma" (itinerant shampooer) attending to a reclining woman, Japan, 1866-1867
• PH1983:0516:041, Full length portrait of two "bettoes" (horse grooms) with elaborate tattoos on their backs, Japan, 1866-1867
• PH1983:0516:042, View of a group attending a woman entering a Norimono sedan chair, Japan, 1867-1868
• PH1983:0516:043, View of two figures seated in an antique shop ("curio shop") open to the road, Japan, 1868
• PH1983:0516:044, View of man with a sword and a blindfolded kneeling man, Japan, 1866-1867
• PH1983:0516:045, Group portrait of six firemen with an elaborate paper standard, Japan , 1867-1868
• PH1983:0516:046, View of Yakonin sitting on a horse on the Tokaido road, Japan, 1866-1867
• PH1983:0516:047, Group portrait of men and women eating in front of a painted screen, Japan, 1867-1868
• PH1983:0516:048, View of porters carrying men across a river on hand-barrows, Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:049, Full length portrait of four men in armour, Japan, 1866-1867
• PH1983:0516:050, Portrait of the chief artist in charge of hand-tinting in Felice Beato's studio, Japan, ca. 1869
• PH1983:0516:051, Portrait of a Rokubu intinerant priest, Japan, 1867-1868