Property from the Japan Society Library, London

Inoue Jukichi (1862-1929)

Emma Lasenby Liberty (1845-1920)

Herbert G. Ponting (1870-1935)

Usui Shuzaburo (active circa 1869-89)

A group of 🧔photograph books and an album of photography

Meiji - Taisho period, late 19^th - early 20^th century

comprising:

Inoue Jukichi, Wrestlers & Wrestling in Japan (Tokyo, 1895)

Emma Lasenby Liberty, Japan: A Pictorial Record by Mrs Lasenby Liberty (the photographs were taken in 1888-89,🌌 when and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur and Emma Lasenby Liberty visited Japan in company with Sir Alfred East and Mr Charles Holme)

Ogawa K., Scenes from the Chushingura and the Story of the Forty-seven Ronin (Tokyo, 1892)

Herbert G. Ponting, In Lotus-land: Japan (London, 1922)

Herbert G. Ponting, Fujisan, photographed by Ponting H.⛎ G. published by K. Ogawa, Tokyo Japan (Tokyo, 1905)

Usui Shuzaburo, 50 photographs with hand-colouring laid on card, depicting various everyday scenes and portraits, the black lacquer covers decorated in gold and silver hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with hares pounding rice flour to make mochi under a full moon by autumn grasses