Playing koto
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- R027 (Rosin Number) FSA A1999.35 027
- General
- Title from printed label affixed to bottom center of mount.
- Collector
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Rosin, Nancy
- Collection Collector
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Collection Creator
- Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920
- Ueno, Hikoma, 1838-1904
- Beato, Felice, b. ca. 1825
- Collection Collector
- Rosin, Nancy
- Collection Creator
- Stillfried, Raimund, Baron von, 1839-1911
- Underwood & Underwood
- Place
- Asia -- Japan
- Topic
- Photography -- Japan
- Photography -- 19th century
- Musical instruments
- Koto
- Shamisen
- Women -- Japan
- Photography
- Portraits
- Collector
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Rosin, Nancy
- See more items in
- Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan
- Extent
- 1 Item (photographic print : on mount 26 x 34.7 cm, hand coloring, image 20.4 x 26.1 cm.)
- Date
- [1860 - ca. 1900]
- Container
- Box 6, Item R027
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A1999.35, Item FSA A1999.35 027
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Photographic prints
- Collection Citation
- Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. FSA.A1999.35. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Genre/Form
- Photographic prints
- Scope and Contents
- Seated young woman in kimono is posed above a koto in an indoor studio setting. A shamisen enclosed in a draw string bag is propped against the back screen.
- Photographer unidentified, possibly Kimbei.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1643210100175-1643210104489-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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