1880's daibutsu, carte postale

Imagen muy similar a la entrada 1880's Tamamura Kihei, Daibutsu, aunque en la postal se observa un sujeto en la parte izquierda y la sombra del rostro es casi idéntica. Tanto la palmera de la izquierda como los árboles de la derecha son los mismos.
EL autor podría ser el mismo, Tamamura Kozaburo (1856-1923?).
Fuente: https://www.todocoleccion.net/

1890's Daibutsu at Kamakura, Kazumasa Ogawa

Author: Kazumasa Ogawa ?
Media: Albúmina coloreada a mano,
Fuente: Nagasaki University, Japanese Old Photographs of the Bakumatsu-Meiji Periods
Observaciones:  la colección JOPhB de la Nagasaki University Library atribuye esta imagen a Tamamura Kozaburo o Tamamura Kihei. La leyenda "661 Daibuthu at Kamakura" las identifica como la misma imagen. Baxley Stamps  la atribuye a Kozaburo.

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1880's Tamamura Kihei, Daibutsu

Tamamura Kihei (ID5485, 265x205 mm)

Tamamura Kihei (ID 496, 249x193 mm)

Author: Tamamura Kihei (?-1951)

Type: Albumen - Hand Colored

Title/Subject: "661 Daibuthu at Kamakura"

Photograph Studio: Tamamura Kozaburo

Fuente: Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period (JOPhB)

Observaciones: JOPhB atribuye la imagen ID5485 a Tamamura Kikei, si bien, es idéntica a la imagen ID 496 que si reconoce de T. Kihei. Baxley Stamps dispone de la misma imagen ID5485 pero atribuye la autoría a Tamamura Kozaburo. Si superponemos  las 3 imágenes se observa que son idénticas excepto que la imagen ID 496 ha sido retocada en la copa de los árboles de la parte superior izquierda.

Bio: 

Kihei Tamamura was one of Japan's leading pictorialist from the early days of this movement. He was also the son of Kozaburo Tamamura, the famous Meiji Era commercial photographer who built a photo empire based out of Yokohama. Kihei seems to have turned professional around 1900 and have taken over his father's firm shortly thereafter. He is also thought to have taken many of the classic hand colored tourist views for his father's firm from that time. When the pictorialism movement hit Japan around 1910, Kihei became quite active in this genre and became known as one of the leading Japanese art photographers from 1915 to 1930. When the Great Kanto Earthquake struck Japan in 1923, his father's business was destroyed which may have oddly freed up Kihei to devote more time to his passion of art photography. However the family business was in ruin and never recovered. Kihei's work can often be found in Japanese photo journals and photo annuals during the 1920s including the the Camera Work like photo journal "Hakuyo"; and several of the Japan Photographic Annuals by Asahi Shimbun Publishing in the late 1920s. In the journals from the mid to late 1920s Kihei is always listed as being a resident of Osaka. He is often confused with his father by historians but is easy to identify due to the pictorialist style of his images. (Fuente: Sakura-do)

Tamamura Kozaburo (1856-1923?). Fuente: Baxley Stamps

Author: Tamamura Kozaburo (1856-1923?)
Type: Albumen - Hand Colored
Image Size: 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inch
Title/Subject: "661 Daibuthu at Kamakura"
Photograph Studio: Tamamura Kozaburo
Fuente: Baxley Stamps 

Tamamura Kozaburo, Daibutsu

ID 2284

ID 2252

Fotógrafo:  Tamamura Kozaburo
Lugar: Kamakura
Fecha: desconocida
Medidas: 135x90 cm
Info: " #2252 and #2284 are same. Two flat rocks are placed in front of the pedestal. A map of the temple grounds dated 1899 shows four stones placed at the corners surrounding the statue, suggesting that the foundation stones of the former Great Buddha hall were still in their original locations. A total of 59 such stones still remain in the present-day temple grounds."
Fuente: Nagasaki University Library; Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period

Tamamura Kozaburo, 661 Daibuthu at Kamakura

Author: Tamamura Kozaburo (1856-1923?)
Type: Albumen - Hand Colored
Image Size: 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 in
Title/Subject: "661 Daibuthu at Kamakura"
Photograph Studio: Tamamura Kozaburo
Fuente: Baxley Stamps 

"Kozaburo Tamamura (1856-1923?) began in the photography business with a shop in Asakusa, Tokyo in 1874. In 1883 he moved to Yokohama and opened a studio where he prospered. He specialized in "souvenir photo albums" of Japan which were exported. He also conducted portrait photography in his studio. He is regarded as one of the originators of "Yokohama Shashin" (tourist photographs). It appears the zenith of his production was in the 1890s. He produced albumen photographs as well as collotypes. These were often hand colored. It is my observation (Baxley Stamps) that his collotype photographs were generally of the small format. They were in the nature of 4~5 x 5.5~7 [inch] in image area size. Kosaburo Tamamura export albums often sometimes came with "grass type covers" as well as in lacquer over wood covers.

It is said that in the 1890s Tamamura employed over 100 colorists to fill a special order (sometimes stated to be 180,000) for hand colored photographs. It is widely accepted that these were the albumen photographs tipped into Brinkley's Japan Described and Illustrated set which was actually published in the United States.(Baxley Stamps)