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Image Not Available for Chapter XIV (Part one) from Captain F. Brinkley’s Japan: Described and Illustrated by the Japanese
Chapter XIV (Part one) from Captain F. Brinkley’s Japan: Described and Illustrated by the Japanese
Image Not Available for Chapter XIV (Part one) from Captain F. Brinkley’s Japan: Described and Illustrated by the Japanese

Chapter XIV (Part one) from Captain F. Brinkley’s Japan: Described and Illustrated by the Japanese

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Date1898
MediumAlbum containing albumen prints with applied color Edition 19/250
DimensionsPage size (each): 15 1/2 × 12 1/4 inches (39.4 × 31.1 cm);
Closed dims. (album): 16 × 12 1/2 × 1 1/4 inches (40.6 × 31.8 × 3.2 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Howard S. Liddell
Terms
  • Photographs
  • Albums
  • Japanese
Object number83.058.004
Label CopyBrinkley’s lavishly produced multivolume set of books about Japan would not have been affordable to everyone, but would have appealed to elite tourists to Japan and well-to-do armchair travelers. Cheaper paperboard editions with only a few photographs per volume were also produced to meet the demands of the wider American audience’s enthusiasm for all things Japanese around the turn of the twentieth century. The text was written by various authors and edited by Brinkley to cover a broad range of topics about Japan, including discussions by the influential scholar Okakura Kakuzo about selected works of Japanese art. Okakura later served as a curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. ("American Sojourns and the Collecting of Japanese Art," curated by Ellen Avril and presented at the Johnson Museum June 25–December 18, 2016)
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