| Accession Nr.: | A.4760.2.19.2. |
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| Type: | photograph |
| Artist/Maker: | |
| Date of production: |
1908
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| Place of production: | |
| Acquisition: | collection of Dezső Bozóky |
| Signed: | Below the photo: Dezső Bozóky's handwriting: The entrance of the Yoshiwara in Jemulpo |
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| Materials/Techniques: | collodion print |
| Dimensions: | height: 9.5 cm width: 13.4 cm |
The album containing Dezső Bozóky's travelphotos (second). Related item: A.4760.2. (album). Photograph taken by Dezső Bozóky. A vast Japanese gate at the entrance of the fenced pleasure district (In Japenese: Yoshiwara). The district contains attractive, Japanese-style houses, with stone lamps in front of them. Electricity poles indicate that there is electric lighting in the district. A Korean woman squatting by the fence and a Japanese youth on the right watch the photographer.
