Period Photos of People with Ethnographic Arms

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Originally Posted by David R

A nice photo by Mr T. Enami 南 信國 Enami Nobukuni during the Meiji period using original armour as props and almost certainly a Geiko as the model. Mr Enami took loads of pictures during this period, all of them useful as reference but not to be taken as literal representations of the Samurai Era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Enami
More useful as a source for Samurai is the Beato collection mainly photographed during the Late Edo, Bakumatsu, and Meiji period. http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/collection/muph004

David, try these links, along with the studio models there are actual samurai photographs.


https://www.pinterest.com/worldantiq...i-photographs/

https://www.pinterest.com/worldantiq...-meiji-period/