Empress Shōken
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- R032 (Rosin Number) FSA A1999.35 032
- Creator
- Uchida Kuichi, Photographer, 1844-1875
- Collector
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Rosin, Nancy
- Names
- Shōken, Empress, consort of Meiji, Emperor of Japan, 1850-1914
- 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
- Photography of women
- Fashion -- Japan
- Kimonos
- Women -- Japan
- Portraits
- Creator
- Uchida Kuichi, Photographer, 1844-1875
- Collector
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Rosin, Nancy
- See more items in
- Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan
- Biographical / Historical
- Uchida Kuichi (内田九一) apprenticed under Ueno Hikoma, and eventually opened photo studios in Yokohama, Tokyo and Osaka. He is credited as taking one of the first photographs of the Emperor Meiji and his consort.
- Extent
- 1 Item (photographic print ; on mount 35.5 x 28 cm, image 25.6 x 19.6 cm.)
- Date
- [1860 - ca. 1900]
- Container
- Box 6, Item R032
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A1999.35, Item FSA A1999.35 032
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- 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
- Photographs
- Photographic prints
- Scope and Contents
- Empress Shōken, consort of the Meiji Emperor, dressed in imperial court robes.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1643210100175-1643210104491-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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