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Vintage albumen print hand-colored (circa 1880)
The quality and preservation of the colours are exceptional.
Jinrikisha abandoned near a centuries-old tree in a bay in Japan.
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.
KUSAKABE KIMBEI (1841-1934) "Jirinkisha" circa 1880
Vintage albumen print hand-colored (circa 1880)
The quality and preservation of the colours are exceptional.
Jinrikisha near a centuries-old tree in a bay in Japan.
Japanese rickshaws are called jinrikisha; they are descendants of the sedan chair.
Appearing during the Meiji period (1868 to 1912) as a means of transport replacing the kago (the sedan chair), the jinrikisha was faster and cheaper than the horse.
It was widely used until the 1920s, then replaced by trams, trains and private cars.
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.