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Collection including three large ensemble photographs of women from a well-known studio.
1900214646Kyoto. Late Meiji 1900. Nine mounted studio photographs the images with some fading and spotting but overall in good condition the mounts worn and toned a few with occasional spotting: <br>Three large ensemble groups of women 21 x 26.5 cms mounted on embossed card two with the Kyoto studio stamps of Kiyokuan and the other Kobayashi; <br>One young cadets 21.8 x 27.1 cms with a glassine wrapper annotated with the names of the students; <br>One older cadets 21.7 x 27.1 cms the mount with a stamped border; <br>Two wedding couple and larger family group 19.3 x 13.4 cms and 21 x 26.4 cms in covered window mounts with the stamps of R. Kohno studio Kyoto each with manuscript annotations to the verso of the cover; <br>One formal family group 14.1 x 20.2 cms in a covered window mount stamped Central Studio Nagoya the front cover loose and worn manuscript annotations on the verso; <br>One 15.5 x 21.2 cms casual family group the mount with a greek key and foliated border worn and the image faded. <br>Five blank patient registration forms on fine paper in very good condition.<P> A collection of early 20th century photographs from a well-educated Japanese middle-class family. It is likely that they belonged to the family of a doctor named Tanaka Fusa who had a clinic in Nishio town in the Hazu district of Aichi Prefecture. The photos are accompanied by mid-20th century patient registration forms from Dr. Tanaka's clinic. <br> <br>Three of the photos show large group of women approximately 200 in total and were produced by the Kiyokuan Studio in Kyoto a studio established by Kobayashi Teisuke in 1900. They were most likely female high school students on their school excursion to Kyoto each adopting the same hair style Hisashigami style which was very fashionable among high school girls towards the end of the 19th century. Another family group photo bears the mark of well-known Meiji era Kyoto photographer Hori Masumi 1857-1911. Two later photos are of the wedding in the grounds of Kyoto's Heian Jingu of Ueki Ukichi and his bride Ujiko in May 1929. A Ueda Ukichi is listed as a law student at Kansai University in the early 1920s so this may be the same person. There is an early twentieth century photo of a group of schoolboys each carefully named on the covering tissue and a 1929 photo from a Nagoya studio of a group of dignitaries also individually named on the covering sheet.<P> <b>When referring to this item please quote stockid 214646</b> . unknown
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