Hardcover
1860
1860. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Sixth plate ambrotype of the 17 or 18 year old samurai and interpreter Tateishi Onijiro. Image size approximately 2.75" x 3.25" in an oval mat, protector, and pressed paper or card case lined with original clasp, and orange cut velvet pad (with some wear, where a now perished label, since peeled away, had apparently been used to identify the subject; happily, other portraits of Onijiro exist to verify his identity). The image is exceptionally clear and sharp, unexamined out of the original case, and possibly very professionally cleaned and resealed. Onijiro is depicted in traditional samurai dress, seated beside (truncated)