The Hanami
(Flower-Picnic)

Covers

Paste on Title Label

Kazumasa Ogawa, S. Takashima, 1897
25 Color Collotype Plates

Ogawa, K. (Kazumasa)
Takashima, A.B.

The Hanami (Flower - Picnic) Described by S. Takashima, A.B., Reproduced and Published by K. Ogawa, F.R.P.S., Tokyo, Tokyo, K. Ogawa, 1897 (Meiji 30), distributed by Kelly & Walsh, Yokohama, large 4to (11 3/4 x 15 in - 30 x 38 cm), decorative cloth covered boards, gilt edges, silk paste on title label, string tied, 1 page of "Explanatory Notes," 25 tissue guard protected color collotype plates. All plates, except one, have a descriptive title in English at the bottom of the image. One plate is a multi-pass color collotype plate as those found at the front of the Brinkley books. The others are lightly colored collotype plates. Issued with a decorative cloth folding case.

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Plate 1        "Rambles under the Cherry Trees"
Plates  2-13   Views in Uyeno Park, Tokyo
Plates 14-21   Views in Mukojima
Plates 22-25   Views in Koganei - last plate is a multi-pass
	         color collotype of cherry blossoms

Explanatory Notes

The present volume forms another addition to a series of photographs, illustrating different phases of Japanese life, which we have already published. The select views of the three well-known flower resorts in and near the capital, i.e. Uyeno, Mukojima and Koganei, herein contained are faithful representations of the Hanami (Flower-view). It is the Sakura, or cherry that carries away the hearts of little ones, young maidens, and some grown-up children in this country who take it seriously amiss not to try a picnic, when nature adorns the trees with roscate blossoms. With all its prosaic features, the Hanami in none the less an interesting and popular institution in Japan, and after once enjoying it the scene will long linger in the memory of the participant.

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All 25 Plates in This Book

Rambles Under the Cherry Trees