Tamamura, Kozaburo :
Japanese Views and Characters, Vol. II (Yokohama, Kamakura, Fuji and Nagoya), M. Fujii & Company, ca 1910, horizontal 8vo (6 x 9 in - 15.2 x 23 cm), 24 hand colored collotype plates with captions in English, tissue guards, hard boards covered with fabric, 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.

I have examined two types of this book. They had different hand coloring on the front cover and on the title page. While they both types have 24 plates and most of the plates were the same, the captions under the plates sometimes varied slightly. Also, a couple of the plates are different. The type 1 book has hand painted images of the moon, birds and pine trees on the front cover. The type 2 book has hand painted images of a grass roofed house, trees and mountains.

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Title Page

 
Titles of the 24 Plates

1. Welcome
   

2. Bund of Yokohama from the Grand Hotel
   

3. Bentendori, Yokohama
   

4. Enjoying Them Selves at the Cherry Blossoms
   

5. General View of Yokohama
6. Boys Holiday on the 5th of May (Paper Carps)
7. Seaking for the Shell-Fish at the Spring Low-Tide
8. Mississippi-Bay of Yokohama

9. Playing Harp, "Koto"
   

10. Daibutsu at Kamakura
11. Enoshima

12. Wrestling
    

13. A Ferry Boat
14. Tea and "Tabako"
15. Tamadare Water-Fall, Near Miyanoshita
16. "Cago" on the Way to Hakone
17. Plowing

18. Fujiyama from Tagonoura
    

19. Tea Picking

20. Baskets Peller
    

21. Castle of Nagoya
22. Chrysanthemums
23. Lake Biwa from Miidera, Otsu

24. Mother Says, I Must Neither Talk, Listen, Nor Look
    

Close-up

No Colophon.

 
While this book is not directly attributed to Kazaburo Tamamura it bears some similarities to a book titled A Leaf From the Diary of a Young Lady which has been attributed to him. The subject of that book is the everyday life of "Miss Tokimatsu" and the same individual appears in this book.

Diary of a Young Lady Miss Tokimatsu	Japanese Views
In Souvenirs from Japan by Margaita Winkel, 1991, three different photographs of the woman above are shown. The author characterizes them as "Laughing Geisha" and notes "The Jovial young girl of these photographs was apparently quite popular as she is encountered frequently in similar poses in tourist albums." (pages 111-112)
Diary of a Young Lady Miss Tokimatsu	Japanese Views
Kozaburo Tamamura maintained a shop at Benten-dori, 1-chome, number 2, Yokohama from 1890 - 1916. That street, and perhaps his shop, is one image in this book. The first shop on the left in the pictures appears to be a photograph vendor. Bentendori, Yokohama The image above is reproduced in Terry Bennett's book, Early Japanese Images, at page 117. The photograph bears the title "74B Street of Yokohama" and is attributed to K. Tamamura.   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. (Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, Kobe and Nagasaki)
Volume II (Type 1). (Yokohama, Kamakura, Fuji and Nagoya)
Volume II (Type 2). (Yokohama, Kamakura, Fuji and Nagoya)
Volume III. (Tokio and Nikko)