Portrait of a monk praying (identity unknown)

Portrait of a monk praying (identity unknown)

Hand-tinted photograph from a lacquered album produced for the tourist trade in Japan. Albums contain a selection of commercial photographs, showing Japanese scenic views, gardens, costumes, traditions and everyday life. Includes ceremonies, priests, samurais, actors, people of various professions, unnamed persons, dancers, rituals like hara-kiri, and examples of costumes.

Digitial reproduction of a photograph in the "Water Bird album". Japanese lacquer-bound photographic album' held by Monash University Library Rare Books Collection. Digitised by Monash University Library in 2012. Find this item in the Library catalogue.

1 albumen print : col., 26 x 20 cm. Mounted in album 31 x 39 cm.

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