Catching fish - sakana
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- R054 (Rosin Number) FSA A1999.35 054
- General
- Title taken from penciled writing, bottom of mount.
- According to Henry Rosin, this print is one of Baron von Stillfried's earliest prints, neither numbered nor colored.
- Creator
- Suzuki, Shin'ichi, I, 1835-1918 (Photographer)
- 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
- Peasants
- Fishing
- Creator
- Suzuki, Shin'ichi, I, 1835-1918 (Photographer)
- Collector
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Rosin, Nancy
- See more items in
- Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan
- Biographical / Historical
- Suzuki Shin'ichi learned photography in Yokohama under the pioneering photographer Shimooka Renjo (1823 - 1914). In the early1870s, Suzuki produced a series of depictions of Japanese rural life which were reproduced in "The Far East." In 1889 Suzuki was commissioned with Maruki Riyō (1854-1923) to photograph the Meiji Emperor and Empress.
- Extent
- 1 Item (photographic print ; on mount 16.7 x 24 cm, image 13.3 x 17.4 cm.)
- Date
- [1860 - ca. 1900]
- Container
- Box 7, Item R054
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A1999.35, Item FSA A1999.35 054
- 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
- Three women and a man wade in shallow waters in attempts to catch fish (sakana). The man carries a net over one shoulder while holding a basket in the other hand. Outdoor setting.
- 鈴木 真一
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1643210100175-1643210104502-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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