martes, 28 de junio de 2011

Amida Buddha (Great Buddha) at the Kotoku-in Temple, Kamakura

Unknown Amida Buddha (Great Buddha) at the Kotoku-in Temple, Kamakura 1865-1875
hand-colored albumen print
overall: 10 1/8 x 8 in. (25.7 x 20.3 cm)
Fuente: Davis Museum and Cultural Center.

domingo, 26 de junio de 2011

The Dai Butsu at Kamakura

The Popular Science Monthly
The Dai Butsu at Kamakura
W Delano Eastlake. Moral Life of the japanese. The Popular Science Monthly, July 1893, p.345.

viernes, 24 de junio de 2011

2009 Kamakura by John Fairbairn

Kamakura de John Fairbairn
Portada del libro de John Fairbairn Kamakura (2009).
Observaciones: el libro comenta la serie de diez partidas entre Go Seigen y Kitani Minoru que se desarrollaron en Kamakura entre 1939 y 1941. Este evento se conoce como Kamakura jubango. Ambos jugadores son considerados los padres  del juego Go moderno. 

miércoles, 22 de junio de 2011

1865-1875 Amida Buddha at the Kotoku-in Temple, Kamakura

Unknown
Amida Buddha (Great Buddha) at the Kotoku-in Temple, Kamakura
1865-1875
hand-colored albumen print
overall: 10 1/8 x 8 in. (25.7 x 20.3 cm)
Gift of the Wellesley College Art Department Slide Library
1983.24.54
Fuente: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College

lunes, 20 de junio de 2011

1870-80's 574 Daibutsu at Kamakura

Anónimo
Fuente: New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Observaciones: interesante punto de vista que muestra las palmeras "sago" apuntaladas que aparecen en numerosas fotografías de la época, la arboleda del fondo y el edificio próximo a la estatua.

sábado, 18 de junio de 2011

1902 Worshipping at the shrine of the great Diabutsu


Title: Worshipping at the shrine of the great Diabutsu; largest idol in the [...] Kamakura, Japan
Creator(s): Graves, C. H. (Carleton H.), d. 1943.
Date Created/Published: Philadelphia : C.H. Graves, c1902.
1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-118350 (b&w film copy neg.)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
The Universal Photo Art Company was one of several business titles under which photographer Carlton Harlow Graves sold his photographs late in his career. He was the son of Jesse Albert Graves, an important early worker who was based in the Delaware Water Gap area of Pennsylvania in the 1860-1880 time frame and produced some 500 generally fine scenic views of the western part of the state. Carlton learned the photographic art from his father and moved to Philadelphia to began producing on his own in about 1880. In his early years, he seems to have taken all the views which he published, but he soon began to buy or pirate images from others. Stereoviews issued under his own name are extremely rare. (Fuente: Yellowstone Stereoview)

martes, 14 de junio de 2011

1880s Kazumasa Ogawa, Daibutsu

Kazumasa Ogawa, Daibutsu,1880's.
Albúmina coloreada a mano
Fuente: Tom Burnett Collection
Observaciones: se observan con detalle la palmera y el árbol de la izquierda así como de los visitantes, uno de ellos subido al pedestal de la estatua.

domingo, 12 de junio de 2011

1837 Shimooka, Renjo Diboots. The largest idol in the world

Recto
Verso (detalle caligrafía y sello)
Author: Shimooka Renjo, born as Sakurada Hisanosuke, opened one of the first commercial photography studios in Yokohama, and was a rival of Ueno Hikoma in Nagasaki. Learning photography from the American captain John Wilson, Shimooka opened a studio in Yokohama in 1862. He became very prosperous selling tourist and portrait photographs, and was one of the creators of the "Yokohama Shashin" photography of tourism. In 1867 he opened the new Zenrakudo studio in Yokohama, and took on many apprentices. Retiring in 1876, he relinquished his business to his son.
Biografía ampliada en Photoguide Japan.
Cartes-de-visite: 1 card; 10 x 6.2 cm
Title: Title devised by Henry and Nancy Rosin
Handwritten on verso: "Diboots. The largest idol in the world. It can be seen a little outside of Yokohama. 1873." 
Printed on verso: "Renjio Yokohama," Japanese characters also present 
Fuente: Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan 1860 - ca. 1900. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Partial purchase and gift of Henry and Nancy Rosin, 1999-200
Observaciones: Es interesante observar cómo la vegetación del fondo es muy frondosa. Destaca ya el árbol derecho en el fondo que se repetirá en las imagenesde la década de 1880.
Ueno Hikoma Award (otorgado por la Kyushu Sangyo University):
Ueno Hikoma (1838-1904), the “father of Japanese photography”, who took this photo. He was a pioneering photographer in Japan. After studying chemistry at Nagasaki Igaku Denshusho (Nagasaki Medical Institution), he learned photography from Mr. Rosch, a French photographer Pierre Joseph Rossier (bio en Wiki). Then, in 1862, the 2nd year of the Bunkyu period, he opened Ueno Satsueikyoku (Photo Studio Ueno), the first photo studio in Japan. Many famous people, including Sakamoto Ryoma, Katsu Kaishu and Takasugi Shinsaku, went there, and the studio became famous. His photos convey many important historical images to our modern world. (Kyushu Sangyo University)

1880's Usui Shusaburo, Daibutsu

Type: Albumen - Hand Colored
Image Size: 8 x 10 in
Title/Subject: "119" in Japanese - Daibutz
Photograph Studio: Usui Shusaburo
Fuente: Baxley Stamps

viernes, 10 de junio de 2011

Daibutsu or bronze image at Kamakura, 1860 - ca. 1900

Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan
Album 1, page 17: 1 photographic print: hand coloring; image 26.5 x 20.7 cm., on mount 26 x 33.5 cm
Anónimo : A. Farsari, Kusakabe Kinbei ??.
Forms part of Rosin album number 1. Page 17
Title taken from label affixed to bottom of mount
Short description detailing the dimensions of the Daibutsu is printed on label affixed to bottom of mount
This album, with covers of lacquer and ivory, was produced by a shop which used photographs by Beato, Von Stillfried, Kimbei, and others, without including their descriptions or numbers. Each photograph is described by a label affixed below the print. The work is almost certainly by A. Farsari, who owned the stock of all of these photographs in the 1880s. Kimbei kept some stock he had purchased from Von Stillfried in his own shop. Confusion and uncertainty regarding attribution of 19th century Japanese photography is well-discussed in published material.
Fuente: Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Partial purchase and gift of Henry and Nancy Rosin, 1999-2001

Observaciones: New York Public Library Digital Gallery posee la misma imagen en su colección y la atribuye a Kusakabe Kinbei.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery

lunes, 6 de junio de 2011

A complete map of Kamakura in the district of Sagami 1902

Creator: 
Kawakami Kubei publisher and editor
Translated Title: 
Sagami-no-kuni Kamakura zenzu
Title: 
A complete map of Kamakura in the district of Sagami 1902
Phy. Description: 
1 sheet 39 x 55.5 cm.
Black and white woodblock print
Fuente: MS 7455, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Observaciones. el mapa se acompaña de una fotografía con los detalles de la escultura
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