Palanquin bearers with palanquin (litter)

Category

Library Item

Item no

15155

Title

Palanquin bearers with palanquin (litter)

Description

Six Japanese men carry a wooden palanquin along a road in front of tall wooden gates. Four of the men are wearing wide brimmed hats. Two of the men are merely walking beside the litter and are wearing swords and their hair is tied back in a topknot. They are all wearing kimonos.

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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Architecture > Architectural features > Gates

Clothing and dress > Accessories > Hats

Clothing and dress > Garments > Kimonos

Military > Arms and armament > Daggers and swords

People > Adults > Women

Places > Asia > Japan

Transport > Land > Palanquins