TAMAMURA KOZABURO, AND STUDIO A finely presented album of 50 topographical views, or local trade...

TAMAMURA KOZABURO, AND STUDIO A finely presented album of 50 topographical views, or local trades and types in Japan, 50 hand-coloured albumen prints (200 x 285mm.), some captioned in the negative, mounted one per page (recto and verso) on stiff card, all mounts DECORATED WITH WATERCOLOUR SCENES of landscapes, flowers, animals and peoples, tissue guards, tones variable, approximately 10 with red pencil numeral in centre of image, occasional spotting, original morocco-backed lacquer with a scene of birds, blossoming tree and flora on the upper cover, spine tooled in gilt, g.e., preserved in original silk-lined cloth box with pictorial design incorporating the name of 'K. Tamamura' (worn, split at 2 joints), oblong folio (310 x 400mm.), [c.1890] Footnotes: The subjects include 13 with people (girls on a terrace, girls bathing, sumo wrestlers, women transported, tea pickers, shoe and fish shops, etc.), and view of Kyoto, Nagasaki, Tokyo, Hakone, Kobe, etc. The borders of each are finely illustrated with pen and watercolour scenes of typical Japanese scenes, birds and fauna, and couples. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing