March - Fete
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- R055 (Rosin Number) FSA A1999.35 055
- 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
- Dolls
- Children
- Displays
- Girls -- Japan
- Women -- Japan
- 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.
- Function
- Festivals
- Extent
- 1 Item (photographic print ; on mount 15.7 x 19.5 cm, image 13.9 x 17.8 cm.)
- Date
- [1860 - ca. 1900]
- Container
- Box 7, Item R055
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A1999.35, Item FSA A1999.35 055
- 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
- Two men and three women gather in front of a Hina-Ningyo display and celebrate Hinamatsuri.
- Hinamatsuri (Girl's Day or Doll's Festival) is celebrated on March third, and households with girls usually display hina-ningyo to ensure the girl's growth and happiness. Hina-ningyo are arranged on a five or seven tiered stand, with the emperor and empress at the top, three court ladies on the next tier, five musicians, two ministers and three servants on the bottom tier.
- 鈴木 真一
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1643210100175-1643210104503-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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