The fascinating life and work of an artist who captured some of the first photographs of the Far East are presented in this gorgeous volume.

This catalogue establishes the background and historical context of the 1860 second Opium War, and outlines the central role that photographer Felice Beato play

When Japan opened its doors to the West in the 1860s, delicately hand-tinted photographic prints of Japanese people and landscapes were among its earliest and m

A Career of Japan is the first study of one of the major photographers and personalities of nineteenth-century Japan. Baron Raimund von Stillfried was the most

Charles Longfellow, son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, arrived in Yokohama in 1871, intending a brief visit, and stayed for two years. He returned to Boston lad