Samurai in Armour

Name: Samurai in Armour
Brand: Kusakabe Kimbei, 1880s
Price: 25.99 GBP
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Three samurai in full armour, posed in a Yokohama photo studio sometime in the 1880s. The twist is that by the time Kusakabe Kimbei took this, the samurai were already finished. Japan scrapped their stipends in 1876 and banned them from wearing swords in public the same year. So this is less a battlefield and more a costume drama, staged for foreign visitors who wanted a souvenir of old Japan to take home. Kimbei started out hand-colouring photos for Felice Beato and Baron von Stillfried before opening his own studio in 1881, and you can see that skill in every blue, green and red picked out by hand. Restored and printed on thick, museum-grade matte paper.

• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper is sourced from Japan

Paper: Enhanced matte poster paper, 189 g/m² and 10.3 mil thick, with a smooth, non-glare finish that suits the original hand-colouring.

Sizes: 12×16 in (30×40 cm) or 18×24 in (45×60 cm), both landscape.

Printing: The image is printed edge to edge with no border. Prints are sent unframed, so they'll fit a standard frame of the same size.

The photo: Hand-coloured albumen print by Kusakabe Kimbei, made in Yokohama in the 1880s. The original is in the public domain and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum (84.XA.700.4.58).
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