Tsukamoto (Japanese)
1870s (mid)
Portrait of a man in samurai armor

Ambrotype
5 x 3 ½ ins
 
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, © Nelson Gallery Foundation
 
(Torin Boyd, Facebook comment, 24 June 2019) "This is not a samurai, but someone posing wearing armor called "yoroi" in the mid to late 1870s. The backdrop looks similar to Uchida Kuichi, but is not by him."
 
LL/58131