Art and Artifice: Japanese Photographs of the Meiji Era

This beautiful volume contains selections from the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The 39 sepia and tinted plates are introduced by three illustrated essays on photography and the Meiji Era in Japan: A Traveler s Paradise, by Frederic A. Sharf; Yokohama Shashin, by Sebastian Dobson; and Souvenirs of Old Japan : Meiji-Era Photography and the Meisho Tradition, by Anne Nishimura Morse.