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A beautiful Japanese family photograph album
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A beautiful Japanese family photograph album. Contains 38 photographs (mainly silver gelatin including 4 CDV's and a couple of sepia) and five photograph postcards. The curious feature of this album, is that although it primarily follows the same Japanese family (from Circa 1905-1917) the postcards that are tipped in have annotations in French, and include Vietnam and Burma. A lot of the focus of the photographs is on the traditional dress of the women, and you can see the transition from the kimono through to the modern woman about town. There are also two newspaper cuttings in French, one on Japanese fashions and one on Japanese haircuts. Our personal favourite photograph is a rather grumpy looking old man in traditional costume. He is sitting for a formal celebration of longevity. On his chest are kanji characters: ??? meaning "86 years old" and to his side is a figurine which celebrates 86 years of life. The birthday boy doesn't look terribly pleased with the idea! The album is 23cm x 16cm. To the front cover is a colour photo postcard of a woman leafing through a photograph album. An annotation in French is dated 1917. "Cochinchin?, Saïgon, le 25 avril 1917" There is also a piece of kimono material tipped onto the cover. The album is now covered in protective plastic. There photographs vary in size. Quite a few are studio shots of individuals and the family. A lovely example of the genre. .
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