Chuzan Lake and Nantai Mountain, Nikko, Japan
Kusakabe Kimbei, Chuzan Lake and Nantai Mountain, Nikko, Japan, ca. 1885, albumen silver print, Bequest of Fae Heath Batten, public domain, 1997.58.97
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- Title
Chuzan Lake and Nantai Mountain, Nikko, Japan
- Related Titles
display title: Chuzan Lake and Nantai Mountain, Niko, Japan
- Artist
- Date
ca. 1885
- Medium
albumen silver print
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image/sheet: 8 1/4 in x 10 3/4 in
- Collection Area
Photography
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
Bequest of Fae Heath Batten
- Accession Number
1997.58.97
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
Kusakabe Kimbei, the son of merchants in Kofu, Japan, ran away to Yokohama at the age of eighteen to become an artist. During the late 1860s he assisted photographer Felice Beato, whose work also appears in this gallery. Kusakabe became an independent photographer in the 1880s and opened his own studio in Yokohama, later establishing a second branch in Tokyo. Like Beato, Kusakabe specialized in scenes of Japanese life and landscape—often hand-colored to heighten the sense of realism—that found popularity among Western tourists.
- Exhibitions
2011 One Woman’s Legacy: Selections from the Fae Heath Batten Photography Bequest Portland Art Museum
