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  • Condition: Good. K. Ogawa (flower collotypes), Kozaburo Tamamura (hand colored albumen photographs) (illustrator). Volume VIII (one volume only of a ten volume set), designated "Edition de Luxe" limited to 750 numbered copies this being number 134, folio (12 1/2 x 15+ in), silk covers with beveled edges, folded pages, 1 color flower collotype by Kazumasa Ogawa, 6 large hand colored albumen photographs (8 x 10 1/2 inch), 1 color art reproduction plate accompanied by an essay by Kakuzo Okakura, 22 small hand colored albumen text illustrations/photographs (ca 3 1/2 x 5 in), numbered pages 269-308, 49 pp (40 pages of text narrative with text illustrations + 8 full plates + 1 page art essay). This book contains "Chapter XII. Observations and Pastimes (continued)" (pages 269-90) and "Chapter XIII. Japan's Commercial and Political Intercourse with Foreign Countries" (pages 303-308). The 6 large albumen photographs are: 1) The Nikko Road, 2) Writing a Letter, 3) A Funeral Procession, 4) Japanese Shoes, 5) A Street of Shops and 6) Entrance to Inari Temple at Kyoto. ~ Condition. The book is Good+ condition. The covers are soiled and have small tears and scrapes, primarily along the edges. The corners are worn and bumped. Thre is a 2 x 4 inch tear to the covering on the back which is stained. Internally, the book is clean and free from faults. Only very light and occasional foxing. All the photographs are clean and much brighter than usual. None of the folded pages are severed/broken at the edge. Were there no tear on the back cover, I would rate the book as Very Good. ~~ Shipping Charge. Packed, this book weighs 8+ pounds. Within the US, USPS media rate shipment is $15.00. Shipping outside the US starts at $60.00 for air mail. If shipment is to be outside the US, please email for exact charge. ~~~ More information, to include digital pics, available on request.

  • Seller image for Japan, described and illustrated by the Japanese. Written by eminent Japanese authorities and scholars. for sale by Antiquariat Haufe & Lutz

    Ogawa Kazumasa - Brinkley, F(rancis, ed.).

    Published by Boston, Mass, J. B. Millet (1897-1898)., 1898

    Seller: Antiquariat Haufe & Lutz, Karlsruhe, BW, Germany

    Association Member: ILAB VDA

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    10 Bände. Folio (41 x 32 cm.). Mit 15 farb. Tafeln (Orchideen und andere Blumen, Collotypes), 30 handkol. Orig.-Photographien (Albuminabzüge, jeweils ca. 25 x 19 cm.), 220 Abb. im Text u. 15 farblithogr. Ornament-Tafeln auf Tonpapier. OHln. mit goldgepr. illustr. Deckelsch. (als Blockbuch gebunden). Heiting/Ryuichi S. 10 f. (Emperer's edition). - "Tokyo edition. Limited to five hundred copies, of which this is copy No. 211". - Die früheste und umfangreichste Buchreihe über Japan mit Orig.-Photographien. - Insgesamt erschienen 7 teils num. Ausgaben. - Die meisten Aufnahmen stammen von dem japanischen Fotopionier Ogawa Kazumasa (auch Ogawa Kazuma oder Ogawa Isshin, 1860-1929), darunter auch die schönen Farbtafeln verschiedener Blumen (die heute noch als Kunstdrucke angeboten werden, vorliegende num. Ausgabe mit 5 zusätzlichen Tafeln), die berühmte Aufnahme des Fuji ("Mount Fuji as seen from Kashiwabara"), japanische Ringer, Frauen bei einer Tee-Zeremonie, "Tatooed Postman" u. a. - Ogawa studierte bereits als 15jähriger bei Yoshiwara Hideo Englisch und ging 1880 nach Tokio um seine Englischkenntnisse zu verbessern. In Yokohama wurde er von Shimooka Renjo, einem der ersten professionellen Fotografen, ausgebildet. 1882 ging er nach Boston, wo er Kurse in Portraitfotografie belegte und bei der Albert Type Company den Lichtdruck kennenlernte. Nach seiner Rückkehr nach Japan 1884 eröffnete er in Iidabashi (Kojimachi) ein Fotoatelier, das erste in Tokio. Vier Jahre später gründete er eine Fabrik für Trockenplatten und 1889 Japans erste Druckerei für Lichtdrucke (Ogawa Shashin jo). Ogawa war auch Redakteur bei zwei frühen japanischen Fotozeitschriften, die in seinem Unternehmen im Lichtdruck-Verfahren hergestellt wurden. Außerdem war er Gründungsmitglied der Japan Photographic Society. - "By the end of the 19th century the first photographic publications about Japan by a Japanese photographer were published in Boston and London, though Japan showed little interest in them. Many of the early photographs in these "foreign" publications came from the studio of Ogawa Kazumasa who was also a printer and publisher. He had learned English and the craft of photomechanical printing in Boston. Returning to Japan in 1884, he opened his first studio in Tokyo the next year. At the time, it seems that there were few, if any, Japanese photo publications and most were made for Western consumption. Culturally, Japan was still burdened by its feudal history, which made it suspicious of anything new or Western" (M. Heiting). - 3 Bände mit Abriebstellen am Bezugspapier, Ecken etwas bestoßen, sonst sehr gut erhalten. Sprache: englisch.