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03-26-2017, 09:18 PM
Gorgeous hand-colored photos capture Japan on the brink of modernity
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Street minstrel, Gose.
Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art
In the 1850s and ‘60s, Japan gradually loosened the restrictions on foreign trade and visitors which had isolated it for centuries.
Western travelers and tech**logies began to flow in through a handful of ports, including Yokohama, where photographers such as Felice Beato opened studios to introduce photography to Japan.
Suzuki Shin’ichi was one of the first Japanese to take up the trade. He apprenticed in the studio of Yokohama photographer Shimooka Renjō, and in 1872 he was commissioned by Scottish publisher to J.R. Black to create a ****** of photos for The Far East, a magazine catering to expats in the burgeoning port city. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/03/26/rural-life-in-japan/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Street minstrel, Gose.
Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art
In the 1850s and ‘60s, Japan gradually loosened the restrictions on foreign trade and visitors which had isolated it for centuries.
Western travelers and tech**logies began to flow in through a handful of ports, including Yokohama, where photographers such as Felice Beato opened studios to introduce photography to Japan.
Suzuki Shin’ichi was one of the first Japanese to take up the trade. He apprenticed in the studio of Yokohama photographer Shimooka Renjō, and in 1872 he was commissioned by Scottish publisher to J.R. Black to create a ****** of photos for The Far East, a magazine catering to expats in the burgeoning port city. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/03/26/rural-life-in-japan/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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