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台湾写真画帖

石川京吉 撮影 · 1903 · 石川京吉 · 42 pictures

A Japanese photographic album of Taiwan compiled by Ishikawa Kyokichi and published by him in 1903, aimed at a general audience of the Japanese colonial period. Its pictures are black-and-white photographs of Japanese soldiers and officials gathered on rugged mountain terrain, with dense bamboo-like undergrowth and misty ridgelines; a designer might take from them the drama of layered hills receding into haze and the stiff group compositions of uniformed men on an outdoor expedition.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library