Early Japanese Images. Terry Bennett

      

      EARLY

       JAPANESE IMAGES

      EARLY

       JAPANESE IMAGES

      Terry Bennett

      Charles E. Tuttle Company

       Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan

      To Kishiko

      Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.

       of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan

       with editorial offices at

       Osaki Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0032

      © 1996 by Charles E. Tuttle Publishing Co., Inc.

      All rights reserved

      LCC Card No. 95-61322

       ISBN: 978-1-4629-1137-0 (ebook)

       [email protected] www.tuttlepublishing.com

      First edition, 1996

      Printed in Singapore

      —Table of Contents—

       List of Images

       Acknowledgments

       Preface

       Reflections of the Rising Sun by Sebastian Dobson

       Early Japanese Images

       The Introduction of Photography to Japan

       Early Western Photographers in Japan

       Felice Beato

       Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Ratenicz

       Adolfo Farsari

       Early Japanese Photographers in Japan

       Shimooka Renjo

       Ueno Hikoma

       Kusakabe Kimbei

       Tamamura Kozaburo

       Ogawa Kazumasa

       Uchida Kuichi

       Other Japanese Photographers

       Identifying Photographers' Work

       The Images

       Notes on Selected Images

       Appendix 1: Early Japanese Photographs

       Appendix 2: Photographic Terms

       Bibliography

      Notes: Japanese name order, i.e., surname followed by given name, is used within the text, except for the few nineteenth-century photographers who adopted Western name order. Macrons, signifying long vowels in romanized Japanese, are used with italicized words within the text.

      The hemp-leaf border motif is from a traditional pattern found on women's wear.

      —List of Images—

      (Unless otherwise indicated, the images in the following list are regular photographs.)

1 (Frontispiece). Two women embracing, Stillfried
2.	Typical lacquered album
3.	Edo Castle, Shimooka
4-6.	Members of the first shogunal mission to Europe in London, Caldesi and Company
7.	Ikeda Chikugo-no-kami, Gaspard Félix Tournachon (known as Nadar)
8.	Shoemaker, Usui
9.	Street vendor, Beato
10.	Shimooka Renjo in later life, photographer unknown
11.	Model wearing dance costume, Ogawa
12.	Otometoge, near Mount Fuji, Kusakabe
13.	Japanese woman, lithograph, Eliphalet Brown, Jr.
14.	Shimazu Nariakira, daguerreotype, Ichiki Shiro
15.	Island of Deshima, Beato
16.	Dutch officials at Deshima, photographer unknown
17.	Two Japanese women, stereograph, photographer unknown
18.	Japanese and British legation, stereograph, photographer unknown
19.	Japanese cemetery at Edo, stereograph, photographer unknown
20.	Port of Kanagawa, stereograph, photographer unknown
21.	American legation in Edo, stereograph, photographer unknown
22.	Town and bay of Kanagawa, stereograph, photographer