Vintage albumen print hand-colored (circa 1880)
 The quality and preservation of the colours are exceptional.
 Mississippi Bay near Yokohama
 With Japan opening to international trade in 1854, Yokohama became the city with the largest number of foreign residents and visitors. A road was quickly built to facilitate access from Yokohama to the Honmoku coast. Highly popular with foreigners during the second half of the 19th century, Honmoku even became a resort destination for Westerners visiting Japan. The Mississippi Bay, so named by foreigners residing or visiting Japan in the 19th century, corresponds to what is now Negishi Bay.
 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.