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Goten [Gotenba?]
von Stillfried-Ratenicz, Franz, 1881, Photograph
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Goten [Gotenba?]
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Item no
15121
Title
Goten [Gotenba?]
Description
A village in Japan nestles at the foot of a mountain. Low lying houses with covered porches line either side of the street and a drainage ditch runs between them. A large wooden post with Japanese writing stands in the middle. Several men can be seen, one is carrying a sword.
Artist / maker
von Stillfried-Ratenicz, Franz
Date
1881
Size
19.5 x 24 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Art and Design Library
This item is part of a collection of prints from the studio of Baron Franz von Stillfried-Ratenicz, an Austrian photographer practising in Japan in the late 1870's. Von Stillfried ran a studio in Yokohama at the same time as his brother Raimund, who was also known as 'Baron Stillfried'. This caused a great deal of confusion with the local residents and visitors to Japan in the Meiji Period, and with art historians today.
This album, which dates from 1879-83, comprises 67 separate mounted prints presented in a lacquerware box. Albums of this kind were popular among foreign tourists, who frequently selected the individual prints they wished to include from the studio's collection. Many of these albumen prints were hand tinted. This was a laborious process for which von Stillfried employed, at the height of his success, a substantial number of Japanese workers.
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Views and Costumes of China & Japan
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