Japan--Tamamura, Kozaburo

2 albums, oblong folio (310 x 390mm.), 100 (50+50) hand-tinted albumen prints by Tamamura studio (195 x 255mm., or the reverse), mounted on thick card, recto and verso, tissue guards, contemporary black morocco-backed lacquered covers, one upper cover with stylised view of Mount Fuiji, a river and three Japanese cranes, the second upper cover with three Japanese cranes and bamboo, the cranes depicted in ivory, identical lower covers with insects in gold, red and black, gilt edges, each album housed in original felt-lined patterned folding cloth box printed with the Tamamura studio name, some light scattered spotting (mostly to tissue guards), slight wear to boxes

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A good collection of views by one of the leading Japanese photographic studios of the late nineteenth century. Tamamura's work won many domestic and international awards.