Tamamura Kazaburo:
Artistic Japan, Views in the Land of the Rising Sun, Kobe, Japan, Tamamura, nd (c1906), oblong 5 5/8 x 15 1/2 in (14.1 x 40 cm), cloth covered outer boards with single string tie, brown paper inner covers, housed in wrap-around case, 21 pp. This book is composed of 21 (1 plate missing) hand colored collotype photographs by "Tamamura the Photographer" Each photograph has an English caption. The collotype image areas measure 3 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches. The collotypes are protected with tissue guards. There is no colophon. The cover page indicates "Collotyped and Painted by Tamamura, The Photographer, Kobe, Japan" and carries the second title Views in the Land of the Rising Sun. The title Artistic Japan is printed on the front board.
Plate & Image Sizes
--Image Area: 3 3/8 x 11 1/4 in (8.5 x 28.7 cm)
--Page Size: 5 1/2 x 15 1/4 in (14 x 39 cm)
All Plates:
Rice Planting
Home Sweet Home. Farmers and Peasants' Abodes
Nature in its Winter Dress
An Old Temple in a Lonely Spot
The Sacred Mountain, Fujiyama, from Yoshiwara
The Grove of Pines
The Jinrikisha in the Country
The Historic Kinkakuji (Golden Temple) at Kioto
The Arashiyama Rapids at Kobe
The Halting of Arashiyama Rapids, the Boating Terminus
One of the Private Gardens at Kioto
The Kitase Temple, at Kyoto, in the Foreground
A Pond Amidst the Trees at Nara (The Sarusawa Pond)
A Scene in the Nara Park; (The Deer are Sacred Here)
The Daibutsuden, Nara; The Temple Containing the Colossal Image of Buddha
The Ancient Castle of Osaka
Busy Kobe; A Native Part of the City
Tarumi Village, A Few Miles West of Kobe
A Scene on the Road to Maiko, A Few Miles West of Kobe
Missing
Farmers Seclusive Retreats
A View of the Inland Sea; Beauty Covers the Hidden Dangers
Close-up of Hand Colored Collotype Image (Plate 17)
Listing of Plates:
- Rice Planting
- Home Sweet Home. Farmers and Peasants' Abodes
- Nature in its Winter Dress
- An Old Temple in a Lonely Spot
- The Sacred Mountain, Fujiyama, from Yoshiwara
- The Grove of Pines
- The Jinrikisha in the Country
- The Historic Kinkakuji (Golden Temple) at Kioto
- The Arashiyama Rapids at Kobe
- The Halting of Arashiyama Rapids, the Boating Terminus
- One of the Private Gardens at Kioto
- The Kitase Temple, at Kyoto, in the Foreground
- A Pond Amidst the Trees at Nara (The Sarusawa Pond)
- A Scene in the Nara Park; (The Deer are Sacred Here)
- The Daibutsuden, Nara; The Temple Containing the Colossal Image of Buddha
- The Ancient Castle of Osaka
- Busy Kobe; A Native Part of the City
- Tarumi Village, A Few Miles West of Kobe
- A Scene on the Road to Maiko, A Few Miles West of Kobe
- (Missing)
- Farmers Seclusive Retreats
- A View of the Inland Sea; Beauty Covers the Hidden Dangers
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