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Uncut Cartes de Visite

Detail of a pattern

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Creator

Suzuki, Shin'ichi, I, 1835-1918 (Photographer)
Dates

circa 1872
Collection ID

FSA.A2015.25
EDAN ID

ead_collection:sova-fsa-a2015-25

Scope and Contents

An uncut sheet of cartes de visite by Yokohama photographer Suzuki Shinichi I (1835-1918) showing scenes of Japanese life. Most are from the famous series taken on a veranda in the early 1870s for the periodical "The Far East.."

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Biographical / Historical

Suzuki Shin'ichi learned photography in Yokohama under the pioneering photographer Shimooka Renjo (1823 - 1914). In the early1870s, Suzuki produced a series of depictions of Japanese rural life which were reproduced in "The Far East." In 1889 Suzuki was commissioned with Maruki Riyō (1854-1923) to photograph the Meiji Emperor and Empress.
Local Numbers

FSA A2015.25
Creator

Suzuki, Shin'ichi, I, 1835-1918 (Photographer)
Place

Japan

Yokohama-shi (Japan)
Archival Repository

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Type

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Cartes-de-visite
Citation

Uncut Cartes de Visite. FSA.A2015.25. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Arrangement

in a box
Rights

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Genre/Form

Photographs

Cartes-de-visite
Restrictions

Collection is open for research.