Lot Essay
Including two portraits of Tokugawa Akitake, the younger brother of the last Shogun, who was photographed by Disderi while attending the Paris international exhibition as an official representative of Japan in 1867; nine of Japanese students in New Brunswick, New Jersey, dated 1870-71, three portraits of Japanese girls with dolls in traditional dress, a portrait of two children dressed as Indians posed against a wooded backdrop, an image of a young girl seated, holding a string instrument, a full-length outdoor portrait of a Japanese girl, a portrait of Haru Fusa inscribed in Japanese and two portraits of men, one of a priest.