Saturday, February 20, 2010

Old Japan

Adolfo Farasri

In the 1880s at a time when most Europeans were denied access to the Japanese interior an Italian photographer managed to capture many images of Old Japan. These were then beautifully and realistically hand painted and serve as a remarkable record of a world long since disappeared.

Suggested by Presurfer, the site has several pictures and and a bio. Here is a wiki, and here are more pictures.

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