Caption

Album of photographs and postcards; unknown creator; ; Japanese art, Meiji 1868–1912; subjects: landscapes, women, Japanese women, sakura, boats, torii, mountains, birds, rivers, pine trees, lotuses. Cover: wood covered with brown and black lacquer, painted with gold maki-e, bone faces, superimposed; decoration: landscape with two figures in a boat. Pages decorated with floral and landscape motifs. Late 19th century Meiji period, Japan. Album; height 17.1 cm, width 23.2 cm., A fabric-covered book page with a central cutout revealing an illustration of a seated armored figure wearing a tall black helmet and holding a long pole, rendered against a red-orange background; the figure wears multicolored armor with blue, gold, brown, and black elements and sits with a sword at the side. Surrounding the cutout on the fabric page are painted flowers and foliage in pink, purple, blue, green, and pale brown tones on an off-white background, with a narrow dark vertical strip at the left edge and a horizontal slit below the cutout.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A29_153

License type

Rights managed

Available size

80.1Mb (8.9Mb) / 15.6in x 20.0in / 4665 x 6000 (300dpi)

Keywords

Album photographs postcards unknown creator Japanese art Meiji 1868–1912 subjects landscapes women Japanese women sakura boats torii mountains birds rivers pine trees lotuses Cover wood covered brown black lacquer painted gold maki-e bone faces superimposed decoration landscape two figures boat Pages decorated floral landscape motifs Late 19th century Meiji period Japan height 17.1 cm width 23.2 cm fabric-covered book page central cutout revealing illustration seated armored figure wearing tall black helmet holding long pole rendered red-orange background figure wears multicolored armor blue gold black elements sits sword side Surrounding cutout fabric page painted flowers foliage pink purple green pale brown tones off-white background narrow dark vertical strip left edge horizontal slit cutout.