Image:Meiji Emperor.jpg

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Portrait of the Emperor Meiji by Uchida Kuichi, 1873. Albumen silver print.

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. In 1873, Uchida again photographed the Emperor, who this time wore military dress, and a photograph from this sitting became the official imperial portrait (Ishii and Iizawa). Copies of the official portrait were distributed among foreign heads of state and Japanese regional governmental offices, but their private sale was prohibited. Nevertheless, many copies of the photograph were made and circulated on the market. (Kinoshita).

Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art

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• Bennett, Terry. 'Early Japanese Images' (Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1996), p. 54; p. 132, fig. 128; p. 144, fig. 128.
• Canadian Centre for Architecture; Collections Online, s.v. "Portrait of Meiji"
• 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), 27-28.
• Nagasaki University Library; Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period, "Portrait of Emperor Meiji (3)" , [cited 11 August 2003]
• Tucker, Anne Wilkes, et al. 'The History of Japanese Photography' (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003), p. 54, pl. 29.
• Worswick, Clark. "The Disappearance of Uchida, Kyuichi and the Discovery of Nineteenth-Century Asian Photography." 'Image', vol. 36, nos. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 1993), p. 16, fig. 1; p. 30, fig. 10.
• Worswick, Clark. 'Japan: Photographs 1854-1905' (New York: Pennwick/Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), p. 41, repr; pp. 136, 147.

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• 1868
• Empire of Japan
• Emperor Meiji
• List of state leaders in 1901
• List of state leaders in 1900
• Uchida Kuichi