Actor in Samurai Armor
Suzuki Shin'ichi
1870s
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color
Dimensions
24.6 x 18.9 cm (9 11/16 x 7 7/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.505.1 (2b)
Tags
ArmorSwordsActors
About the Artist
Suzuki Shin'ichi · 1835–1919
Suzuki Shin'ichi (1835–1919) was a Japanese photographer who worked during a period of extraordinary transformation in both Japanese society and the history of the photographic medium. Active during the Meiji era, when Japan was engaged in a sweeping process of modernization and opening to the world, Suzuki belonged to the generation of early Japanese photographers who helped define what photograp...