Condition. All the items below are in Very Good condition. Except for the Ide Studio advertisement/photograph, no foxing or staining. The folding pieces are sound with only a few small tears or breaks along the folds. Condition is shown accurately in the images below and comments regarding significant condition matters are provided below the images.

 
General Description. The ephemera that you see below is from a visit to Japan in 1906 (Meiji 40).

 
This material is offered only as a unit and will not be broken up.

 
Albumen Photograph, hand tinted and mounted in folder
by the K. Tamamura Studio

(9 x 13.7 cm, image - 16 x 23 cm, mounting board)

 
Album Photograph, hand tinted and mounted
by the K. Tamamura Studio

(9.2 x 13.5 cm, image - 11.5 x 16.7 cm, trimmed mount/board)

 
Albumen Photograph, hand tinted (8 x 10 in), never mounted
"A 455 Red Lacquer (Sacred Bridge) Nikko (Unidentified Studio)
(26 x 20 cm)

 
Albumen Photograph, hand tinted (8 x 10 in), never mounted
"755 Sacred Bridge Nikko" (Kusakabe Kimbei Studio)
(26 x 20 cm)

 
Albumem Photograph (tipped to thick board) with images of art supplies
Ide Studio Fine Art and Design, No. 2, Sojuro-cho, Kyobashiku, Tokyo
(19.6 x 15.5 cm, image - 27 x 22.5 cm, board)
Foxing & tears in margins. Photograph is clean.

 
Map of Yokohama (folding map with advertising on back)

(50.5 x 37.7 cm)

 
Osaka Tenmangu Zenzu (folding sketch map dated Meiji 36 (1903))

(40 x 55 cm)

 
Sketch of Procession of the Annual Festival at Great Temple at Nikko, 2nd June, With Complements of Kanaya Hotel, Nikko, Japan, color lithograph fold-out plate (7 folds- out), Meiji 39 (1906), (40 x 7 1/2 in - 104 x 19.2 cm, composed of two sheets which are joined at halfway point - the fifth fold out.

 
Booklet, Marriage Customs in Japan (With Descriptions of the Imperial Wedding), The Eisho Shuppan sha, Yokohama, Meiji 37 (1904), paper wraps, 46 pages.

12 mo (5 1/4 x 7 1/2 in - 13 x 19 cm)

 
Flyer, Kanaya Hotel, Programme of the Great Temple Procession at Nikko, June 1st & 2nd 1906, folded sheet printed front and back. Contains two hand tinted collotype prints.

(30 x 23.8 cm) - edge damage and dog eared corners

 
Letter from Japan to Belfast, Maine. Canceled Meiji 40(1907).10.12. with Nov 7, 1907 backstamp in the US. Contents present. The contents are a long, multi-fold, personal letter dated October 6, 1907, "Tokyo Japan, Address: US Consul Yokohama" from "Clara." Both the letter and letter stationery have printed illustrations. The letter folds-out more than 112 cm.

 
Flyer for Kuhn & Komor, Yokohama, with photograph of the curio store at No 37, Water Street, across from the Grand Hotel.. Small folding sheet printed on both sides.

(15.8 x 12 cm)

 
Christmas/New Year Card with Woodblock Print

Tipped on Woodblock measures 9.7 x 6.5 cm, Single Sheet/Undated/Signed Note on Back

 
Christmas/New Year Card with Woodblock Print

Tipped on Woodblock measures 6.5 x 10 cm, Folder/Undated/Unsigned

 
Christmas/New Year Card with Woodblock Print

Tipped on Woodblock measures 13.5 x 8.5 cm, Folder/Undated/Unsigned

 
Photograph c1909

Photograph measures 9.2 x 9 cm

 
Photograph, Shanghai, China, March of 1906

Photograph measures 8.5 x 14 cm