Characteristic Japan, 19th c. tourist photo album

Heading: (Japan)
Author: Tamamura, Kozaburo
Title: Characteristic Japan. Views and Characters in the Land of the Rising Sun
Place Published: Kobe, Japan
Publisher:Tamamura, Photographer
Date Published: [1898]
Description:

Illustrated with 24 hand colored collotype photographic prints on cream paper, with tissue guards. (Oblong folio) 19x42 cm, original decorated silk padded boards, silk ties, all edges gilt.

Tourist album produced by the studio of Kozaburo Tamamura (1856-1923?), one of the originators of the tourist album concept in Japan. The subject of these photographs are Kyoto, Osaka, Shikoku, with scenes of temples, pagodas, rivers, lakes and Fujiyama, etc., with captions in English.
Condition Report: Some wear to silk on boards, hinges cracked, some wavy pages and offsetting; overall very good.