Details
Title [Half-length portrait of an unidentified Japanese woman] [graphic].
Publisher [Japan]
Publisher Japan. 1865
Date [ca. 1865]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 6 x 10 cm (2.5 x 4 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Half-length portrait of an unidentified Japanese woman. The woman wears her hair tied up with numerous kanzashi (decorative hair ornaments), which protrude all around her head. She is attired in a patterned kimono, and sits kneeling with her hands on her lap as her eyes look to the left. Behind her is a wooden stool.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from content.
Manuscript note written on recto: Hair, dress, Japan.
Manuscript note written on verso: Japanese fashion.
Subject Clothing & dress -- Japan.
Hair ornaments.
Japanese.
Kimonos.
Women -- Japanese.
AAPI.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870.
Portrait photographs -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv - unid. photographer - unid. female sitters [P.9057.80] (Brenner)
Accession number P.9057.80