Sepia photograph colored with blue and pink details representing a Japanese man in a hat posing with a staff and a bell in his hands and standing by a stone lantern. The photograph is placed in the center of an album page decorated with a gold-leaf frame, colorful dots, and an inscription.
A Japanese pilgrim stands against a landscape backdrop and next to a stone lantern. He is dressed in white with a straw wide-brimmed hat and holds a bell in one hand and a staff in the other. Portions of the image have been hand tinted in shades of blue and pink. | Inscription: "Fusiyama [Mt. Fuji] pilgrim" in ink in block letters by Charles Longfellow. | Notes: 1871-1873 as given in inscription for first item in album. This photograph, identified as Felice Beato's, appeared in Italo Zannier's "Verso Oriente" (Florence, 1986).
Archives Number: 1008.2/1.1-4#16
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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Code: LONG
Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938