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From Japan’s first collotype press – Japan - Ogawa, K. Panoramic Japan, Tokio, o.D. u. J. (um 1902). Fol. (36,5:26,5 cm ). Mit 57 farbigen Collotypien auf Tafeln. Or.-Pp. mit Seidenbrokatbezügen und farbiger Deckelillustration, eingelegt auf beiden Deckeln; diese mit Anflug von Stockflecken, Kanten gering berieben. ( ) Vgl. Bennett 210 f. - Die Tafeln zeigen traditionelle japanische Kostüme und Sitten, berühmte Bauwerke und Tempel (in Tokio, Nagoya, Osaka, Nikko, Mitake, Nara und Kioto) sowie Landschaften und Szenen, teils mit begleitenden Kurzbeschreibungen in Englisch. - Durchgängig etwas stockfleckig. A rare work with 57 chromo-collotype plates showing traditional architecture, scenic views, and subjects associated with Japanese culture and ritual custo ms. "Kazumasa Ogawa (1860–1929) became one of the most enterprising and important early photographers, technicians, and printers in Japan. Born shortly before the Meiji era (1868–1912), or period of “enlightened rule,” and educated in both the United States and Japan, Ogawa produced a range of illustrated books for the Western market ... Kazumasa Ogawa was a pioneering photographer and printer, and the foremost photography publisher in Japan during the Meiji era. The editor of Shashin Shimpo, he opened Tokyo’s first photography studio, established Japan’s first collotype press, and was a founding member of the Japan Photographic Society" (Getty Publications, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2013). Exceptional binding in brokaded original-cloth with coloured illustrations on silk inlays to both covers, some foxing to binding as well as plates.