[Portraits of the executioner of Kanagawa with sword and prisoner, the head of Hayashida Tciken, and Chinese women, including one from "Foochau"]
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Captions on front of item: "Executioner of Kanagawa" (upper left); [no caption] (upper right); "Chinese women" (lower left); and "Foochau woman" (lower right).
Captions on back of item: "Executioner of Kanagawa" (upper left); "Hayashida Tciken (upper right); "Chinese women" (lower left); and [no caption] (lower right).
Top left image attributed to Felice Beato and also appears in album Beato, Felice. Views of Japan, ca. 1868, in the custody of the Getty Museum.
Top right image taken by Frederick William Sutton.
Bottom two images attributed to John Thomson, taken in Shanghai, 1870-1872. (Source: Regine Thiriez, 2009)
Caption on upper right image continues: Hayashida Tciken, medical student who attacked H.E. Sir Harry Parkes and retinue, on their way to visit the Mikado, at his palace in Kioto, 23rd March 1868; and was decapitated by Nakai and Goto Shogiro, officers of the court of the Mikado. Photographed by F.W. Sutton, C, E.R.N.
In album: Japanese and Chinese portraits, [p. 38].
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