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Portrait of Empress Consort Haruko (posthumously known as Empress Shoken, consort of Meiji, Emperor of Japan). Albumen silver print by Uchida Kuichi, 1872.
Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Uchida Kuichi was the only photographer granted a sitting by the Emperor Meiji and in 1872 Uchida photographed the Emperor and Empress Haruko in full court dress and everyday robes (Kinoshita; Ishii and Iizawa).
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- Bennett, Terry. 'Early Japanese Images' (Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1996), p. 54; p. 133, fig. 129.
- Canadian Centre for Architecture; Collections Online, s.v. "Portrait of Empress consort Haruko"
- Ishii, Ayako, and Kotaro Iizawa. 'Chronology'. In 'The History of Japanese Photography' (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003), 314.
- Kinoshita, Naoyuki. 'The Early Years of Japanese Photography'. In 'The History of Japanese Photography' (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003), 27.
- Nagasaki University Library; Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period, "Portrait of Empress Dowager Akinori (3)", [cited 11 August 2003]
- Robinson, Bonnell D. 'Transition and the Quest for Permanence: Photographers and Photographic Technology in Japan, 1854-1880s'. In 'A Timely Encounter: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Japan' (ex. cat.; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press, 1988), p. 42, figs. 36, 37.
- Tucker, Anne Wilkes, et al. 'The History of Japanese Photography' (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003), p. 55, pl. 30.
- Worswick, Clark. 'Japan: Photographs 1854-1905' (New York: Pennwick/Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), p. 40, repr.; pp. 136, 147.
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