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yakunin---samurai-officer_4415494904_o
Felice Beato, “japanese officer in state dress”, hand colored albument print, Japan, ca. 1864
Portrait of a yakunin in ceremonial attire. Yakunins were samurais having officials positions in the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan’s feudal Edo period.
This portrait have been taken in the Yokohama studio of the famous english photojournalist from Corfou, Felice Beato. In the late days of shogunate, just before the Meiji restoration, the social agitation was great and even if Yokohama was an harbour with extraterritoriality status a few foreigners were murdered by xenophobes samurais supporting the Emperor. As a result, yakunins like this one were sent by the Shogun to protect the foreigners in Yokohama.
This fierce looking man wears the two swords attribute of samurai : katana and wakizashi. He is also holding a folding fan and have the traditional samurai haircut, the chonmage with a shaved pate and a topknot.
He is dressed in the ceremonial han kamoshimo outfit, including a formal kimono, hakama, and a sleeveless jacket with exaggerated shoulders called kataginu.
yakunin---samurai-officer_4415494904_o
Felice Beato, “japanese officer in state dress”, hand colored albument print, Japan, ca. 1864
Portrait of a yakunin in ceremonial attire. Yakunins were samurais having officials positions in the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan’s feudal Edo period.
This portrait have been taken in the Yokohama studio of the famous english photojournalist from Corfou, Felice Beato. In the late days of shogunate, just before the Meiji restoration, the social agitation was great and even if Yokohama was an harbour with extraterritoriality status a few foreigners were murdered by xenophobes samurais supporting the Emperor. As a result, yakunins like this one were sent by the Shogun to protect the foreigners in Yokohama.
This fierce looking man wears the two swords attribute of samurai : katana and wakizashi. He is also holding a folding fan and have the traditional samurai haircut, the chonmage with a shaved pate and a topknot.
He is dressed in the ceremonial han kamoshimo outfit, including a formal kimono, hakama, and a sleeveless jacket with exaggerated shoulders called kataginu.