Vintage albumen print hand-colored (circa 1880)
 The quality and preservation of the colours are exceptional.
 Harakiri scene
 Harakiri is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. Samurai traditionally practiced it to die with honor rather than be captured by the enemy.
 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.