Author: BRINKLEY, Captain F. (ed.)
Title: A Koto Player [a Hand-Coloured Albumen Photograph from 'Japan Described and Illustrated by the Japanese']
Description: Boston, MA, J. B. Millet Company, 1898.The photograph has lightened, but the image is clearly defined,From the explanation printed on the tissue guard: 'The koto is the most important of Japanese musical instruments, and proficiency in playing upon it is highly esteemed. The tones evoked have but little resonance, and the compositions are so peculiar as to be unitelligible to foreigners'. The photograph shows a young Japanse woman, in traditional dress, kneeling before the instrument. It is apparently a studio photograph, taken by Tamamura Kozaburo. This is an albumen photograph, made by using silver salts suspended in egg white. It is taken from a volume of the famous 'Japan' set, published by J. B. Millet Company in 1897/1898, in a series of editions. The photograph is in exceptional condition; the tissue guard has a small closed tear. The photograph, with explanatory tissue guard, measures 20 x 25 cm as mounted, and 31 x 40 cm on the page.

Keywords: Japanese;Far east;Oriental;;;;;;


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