Six hand-coloured photographs.

Original photographs, albumen prints, hand-coloured, 19,5 x 25 cm, mounted on cardboards, not signed, some with caption.

Different scenes from everyday life in Japan: visitors in a chrysanthemum garden, ships' carpenters, four geishas (?) strolling in a courtyard, two women being transported in a rickshaw, shopkeepers and visitors in a dry goods store. All six photos hand-coloured in red and green shades.
Joined: 1. Studio Shin-E-Do - Japanese fishermen. Ca. 1880-1890. Original photograph, hand-coloured albumen silver print, 20 x 26,7 cm, with caption, not signed, stamp "Shin-e-do, Kobe Japan" on verso. - 2. Harvest of the rice. Paris, Agence Rol, 1936. Original photograph, silver print, 13 x 18 cm, not signed, legend and stamp on verso: "Ces ouvriers préparent soigneusement le terrain après le passage de la charrue, un jour de pluie se couvrant d'un manteau de paille". (8 pcs)