1 Item (photographic print ; on mount 15.7 x 19.5 cm, image 13.9 x 17.8 cm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographic prints
Place:
Asia -- Japan
Date:
[1860 - ca. 1900]
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
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.
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.
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. FSA.A1999.35. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
