{"product_id":"kusakabe-kimbei-pounding-rice-albumen-print","title":"Pounding Rice. Hand-colored albumen print","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eYokohama, middle Meiji period (c. 1883–1897). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"RU\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e20x25.3 cm. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eAttributed to Kusakabe Kimbei (1841–1934). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"RU\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eOther prints from the same negative, captioned \"43. Pounding Rice\", are in the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Museum, the Náprstek Museum, Prague (Josef Kořenský collection), and the Nagasaki University Library (no. 3022, photographer unidentified). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"RU\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eThe image depicts four workers in a rice-cleaning shop (tsukigome-ya, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e搗米屋\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e). Three operate treadle pestles (karausu, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e唐臼\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e), stepping on the levers to raise the weighted pestles, which drop into mortars sunk in the floor and strip the bran from the grain, while the fourth sweeps the rice back into the mortar with a straw broom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"RU\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eUnlike many genre scenes of the period, which were staged in the studio with hired models and props, this photograph was evidently taken on location in a working shop: the mortars are sunk into the floor, which is strewn with rice, and the men wear work coats bearing the shop's name on the collars. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"RU\"\u003eThe poses, however, are still arranged for the camera.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBinding \u0026amp; condition\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"RU\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eUnmounted. Good: light rubbing, small tear to the lower edge, ownership mark in pencil to the verso. Trimmed, without the negative caption.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReferences\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eReproduced\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e: Japan 1900: A Portrait in Colour (Cologne: Taschen, 2024), p. 80, as by Kusakabe Kimbei.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syrovatskaya Books \u0026 Curiosities","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59303648821596,"sku":"SYR-018","price":110.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/0654\/7804\/files\/DSC00463.jpg?v=1791303548","url":"https:\/\/syrovatskaya.com\/products\/kusakabe-kimbei-pounding-rice-albumen-print","provider":"Syrovatskaya Books \u0026 Curiosities","version":"1.0","type":"link"}