And another collection of kimono-related images from an online database, this time from the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe which is located in my hometown, Hamburg. The pictures are mainly from European photographers Felice Beato and Raimund von Stillfried-Rathenitz, as well as Japanese national Kusakabe Kimbei. Kusakabe worked for the former two as an assistant for many years, until opening his own studio in Yokohama in 1881. He came to be regarded as the most respected and successful Japanese photographers of his generation. Many of the images in the studio’s catalogue featured depictions of Japanese women, which were popular with tourists of the time.

Just a collection of images I found in the online database of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Old photographs can be very useful in observing how people in the past have worn and engaged with kimono, and this is something I’d like to further widen my knowledge on in a potential future research project. Until then, I’m just collecting these images here on my blog.