Type 2b - Cover

 
Condition. The book is in Good+ condition. The covers are lightly soiled and have edge scrapes. The top and bottom covers tend to bow out at the fore-edge. The spine covering at the head and foot is missing. Internally this is very light scattered foxing.

 
Tamamura, Kozaburo:
Japanese Views and Characters, Vol. III (Tokio and Nikko), ca 1910, horizontal 8vo (6 1/4 x 9 in - 16 x 22.8 cm), 24 hand colored collotype plates with captions in English, tissue guards, hard boards covered with fabric, spine covered, string tied, unpaginated. The actual images are approximately 4 x 6 in (10.5 x 15 cm). The hand coloring of the collotype plates in these books is well executed with a wide range of colors employed, to include pastels.

The type 1a and type 1b books have different cover and title page illustrations and different color ties. Aside form that, they are essentially the same books. The type 1a & 1b books are 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 in - 16 x 24 cm. The type 2 book has different covers and title page and is slightly smaller measuring 6~6 1/4 x 9 in - 15.4~16 x 22.8 cm.

All types have the same images in the same sequence. The covers and title pages of these books have hand drawn illustrations. For this reason, absolute consistency in cover and title page art can not be expected. The cover and title page pictures presented on this page are for general information. It does appear that the large size books (type 1) have illustrations of flowers and birds on the covers while the small size books (type 2) show a hut beside a pond with a boat in the foreground.

For more information on Kozaburo Tamamura, click here.

 
Type 2b - Title Page

 
Titles of the 24 Plates

1. A Private Garden


2. Nursing a Baby
3. Cherry Blossoms in Ueno Tokyo


4. Iris Blossoms at Horikiri, Tokyo
5. The Geisha Dance


6. Shiba Temple at Tokyo
7. Wisteria Blossoms at Kameido, Tokyo
8. Autumn Tints of Takinogawa, Tokyo
9. Geisha Girl, playing Samisen


10. A Tea House
11. The Moat, at Tokyo
12. The Buddhist Priests


13. The Chryptomeria Avenue at Nikko
14. The Sacred bridge at Nikko


15. Girls amusing themselves, looke (sic) at the Album


16. The Yomeimon Gate at Nikko
17. The Karamon Gate and the Ieyasu temple, at Nikko
18. Working on the silk Worms


19. The Torii and the Futaarasan Temple, Nikko
20. The Tea House at Chuzenji, Nikko
21. The Kegon Waterfall at Nikko
22. The Farmer and His Wife, working on the Field


23. The Yumoto Lake, Nikko
24. Ainues, the Native of Hokkaido, Japan

No Colophon.

 
Listing of Plates (without images)
Same in all types of book

1. A Private Garden
2. Nursing a Baby
3. Cherry Blossoms in Ueno Tokyo
4. Iris Blossoms at Horikiri, Tokyo
5. The Geisha Dance
6. Shiba Temple at Tokyo
7. Wisteria Blossoms at Kameido, Tokyo
8. Autumn Tints of Takinogawa, Tokyo
9. Geisha Girl, playing Samisen
10. A Tea House
11. The Moat, at Tokyo
12. The Buddhist Priests
13. The Chryptomeria Avenue at Nikko
14. The Sacred bridge at Nikko
15. Girls amusing themselves, looke (sic) at the Album
16. The Yomeimon Gate at Nikko
17. The Karamon Gate and the Ieyasu temple, at Nikko
18. Working on the silk Worms
19. The Torii and the Futaarasan Temple, Nikko
20. The Tea House at Chuzenji, Nikko
21. The Kegon Waterfall at Nikko
22. The Farmer and His Wife, working on the Field
23. The Yumoto Lake, Nikko
24. Ainues, the Native of Hokkaido, Japan

 
This book is not directly attributed to Kozaburo Tamamura. However many of the images in this three volume set have been attributed to him. In this book you find this image:

Cherry Blossoms in Ueno Tokyo

The same image ("No 454 Ueyno Park") has been attributed to Tamamura in Early Japanese Images by Terry Bennett (see below).

Tamamura offered this series (Volumes I, II and III) in an advertisement published ca 1909.

 
 
Bennett, Terry:
Early Japanese Images, Rutland, Vermont, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1996, black cloth, dust jacket, 8vo (7 3/4 in x 10 1/2 in) 138+ photographs, bibliography, appendix of photographic terms, listing of 1000 early photographs showing title, number and in most cases attributed to a specific photographer, 168 pp. Covers the early days of photography in Japan from 1853, when Commodore Perry visited, to the end of the Meiji era in 1912. Includes commentary and examples of the work of Eliphalet Brown, Jr., Felice Beato, Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Rateniz, Adolfo Farsari, Renjo Shimooka, Hikoma Ueno, Kimbie Kusakabe, Kozaburo Tamamura, Kazumasa Ogawa, Kuichi Uchida. The listing of early Japanese photographs is an invaluable resource in identifying 19th century photographs which often had a caption and number but no indication of the photographer. ISBN: 0-8048-2029-5 (hardback), ISBN: 0-8048-2033-3 (softback)

 
Winkel, Margarita:
Souvenirs from Japan, Japanese photography at the turn of the century, London, Bamboo Publishing Ltd, 1991, oblong 8vo (8 1/2 x 9 3/4 in - 22.5 x 26 cm), 171 pictures (including front and back cover - approximately 1/3 in color), 160 pp. Preface by Professor Willem R. van Gulik. A comprehensive illustrated review of photography in Japan in the 19th century. The author discusses various facets of photography in 19th century Japan (methods, noted photographers & subjects) with a focus on how these were applied in the "Souvenir" photographs produced for sale to foreigners and export out of Japan. The discussion is supplemented with 171 reproductions of these "albumen" photographs (many of which were hand colored) from the renowned collection of R. Shilling. ISBN: 1-870076-58-3 (paperback) and 1-870076-18-4 (cloth).

Volume I (Types 1 & 2). (Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, Kobe and Nagasaki)
Volume II (Types 1 & 2). (Yokohama, Kamakura, Fuji and Nagoya)
Volume II (Type 3a & 3b). (Yokohama, Kamakura, Fuji and Nagoya)
Volume III (Types 1a, 1b, 2a and 2b). (Tokio and Nikko)