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1865 Japan Ambrotype of Samurai Warrior, Photographer Akiri, Dated, 2 Items. This ambrotype is arguably the earliest Japanese ambrotype known to survive!1)1865 Japan Ambrotype of Samurai Warrior.Inscription on the red stamp, on kiri cased lid reads : To Keio first year (1865). The photographer Akira took this picture in Tokyo. Important note frommadajonokuchiThe red, circular seal on the box reads, \'Osaka, Sennichimae xx, Midosuji. Futaba Kenzaburo.\' So the photographer\'s name is Futaba Kenzaburo. Doesn\'t seem to be much info about him anywhere. I can\'t read the date on the wooden box but it seems to start with Meiji .... so it\'s probably 1868 or 692) Cyanotype, carte de visite of the same Samurai Warrior attributed to photographer \"Akira of Tokyo\".Provenance: From the beautiful ambrotype collection of Jeremy Rasse, Pelissanne, France.Free priority shipping, (Will and want to ship to Japan as I consider this group as the earliest, important Japanese ambro outside of any museum, signature required. 2 Week 100% money back guaranteed if not matching description(minus shipping).
When Japan opened its ports to the West in the 1850s,photography—called “shashin”, literally, “a copy of truth”, soon became widelyavailable. High-end professional salons and open-air studios operated byitinerant practitioners offered portraits at every price range. While thepopularity of ambrotypes, a positive photograph on glass, was short-lived inthe United States, Japanese ambrotypes were in demand from the early 1870suntil the end of the nineteenth century. Housed in poetry-inscribed kiri-wood boxes, they provide an intimateand rare glimpse of how modern Japanese society represented itself.James Ambrose Cutting patented the ambrotype process in1854. Ambrotypes were most popular in the mid-1850s to mid-1860s. Cartes devisite and other paper print photographs, easily available in multiple copies,replaced them.

An ambrotype is comprised of an underexposed glass negativeplaced against a dark background. The dark backing material creates a positiveimage. Photographers often applied pigments to the surface of the plate to addcolor, often tinting cheeks and lips red and adding gold highlights to jewelry,buttons, and belt buckles. Ambrotypes were sold in either cases or ornateframes to provide an attractive product and also to protect the negative with acover glass and brass mat. The collodion positive, or ambrotype, firstappearedin about 1853. By the 1860s the process had largely disappearedfrom high street studios, but it remained popular with itinerant open-airphotographers until the 1880s, because portraits could be made in a few minuteswhile sitters waited.

The cyanotype process, also known as the blueprint process,was first introduced byJohn Herschel(1792 – 1871) in 1842. Sir Johnwas an astronomer, trying to find a way of copying his notes.

Herschel managed to fix pictures using hyposulphite of sodaas early as 1839. In the early days the paper was coated with iron salts andthen used in contact printing. The paper was then washed in water and resultedin a white image on a deep blue background. (Apart from the cyanotype process,Herschel also gave us the words photography, negative, positive and snapshot.

Kiri wood is native to Japan and is akin to balsa wood(except stronger). Proper name is “Paulownia”andis known inJapanaskiri(桐), specifically referring toP.tomentosa; it is also known as the \"Princess tree\" or the ”Phoenixtree”.Paulowniais themonof the office oftheJapanese prime minister, and also serves as theGovernment Seal ofJapanused by theCabinetand theGovernment ofJapan(whereas thechrysanthemumis theImperial Seal ofJapan).



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