Yokohama Japan Glass Photo Plate Black White Positive 8,5×10 cm
📷 Row of rickshaws at the water’s edge — Japan — Circa 1900 Lined up along a promenade, several rickshaws await their passengers while their drivers, seated or squatting, wait in a calm attitude. A child in a kimono stands in the foreground, bringing a touching presence to the scene. In the background, water extends to a quay or pier, punctuated by silhouettes and infrastructure, illustrating a changing landscape in Meiji-era Japan. – Place : Japan (probably Yokohama, Tokyo or Kobe) – Context : urban transport and daily life – Support: positive plate on glass 8.5 × 10 cm approximately Private collection of a photographer collaborating with the House of Good Press, founded in 1873 and became Bayard Press in 1970. An authentic testimony of traditional Japan at the dawn of its modernization,.