Title(s)

Boys playing kotoro

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1557B-6

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘The sports of Japanese (...) most of our old nursery friends modified by the genius loci.’

Artist

• photographer: Kusakabe Kimbei (attributed to)
• anonymous

Place

Japan

Dating

c. 1887 - in or before 1897

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print / hand coloring

Measurements

height 85 mm × width 127 mm

What

• children's games and plays
• boy (child between toddler and youth)

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Japan described and illustrated by the Japanese section two (RP-F-2001-7-1557B)