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Vintage albumen print with watercolor hand-coloring (circa 1880)
The quality and preservation of the colours are exceptional.
Kusakabe Kimbei photographs in the studio and stages a very picturesque vision of Japanese culture by featuring this Kyoto dancer dressed in a kimono, with a paper fan in her hand.
KUSAKABE KIMBEI (1841-1934) The dancer from Kyoto circa 1880
Vintage albumen print with contemporary hand-coloring (circa 1880)
The quality and preservation of the colours are exceptional.
Kusakabe Kimbei photographs in the studio and stages a very picturesque vision of Japanese culture by featuring this Kyoto dancer dressed in a kimono, with a paper fan in her hand.
Kusakabe Kimbei (1841-1934) was a colorist and assistant to Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Von Stillfried before opening his own studio in Yokohama in 1881.
Around 1885, he bought back the negatives of Beato and Stillfried. Kimbei immortalized numerous portraits of Japanese people at the end of the 19th century. The prints, which he hand-colored, were then sold to tourists visiting the country.