File:Empress Consort Haruko.jpg

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Author	Uchida Kuichi  (1844–1875)     Alternative names K(y)uichi Uchida; Kuichi Uchida Description Japanese photographer Date of birth/death 1844  17 February 1875  Location of birth/death Nagasaki Surugadai Work period 1860 –1875  Authority file : Q509907 VIAF: 65191026 ISNI: 0000000019744342 GND: 133259927 BNF: 16640077f KulturNav: 6f0aee1b-6885-4a3b-84f6-26c83d4fb361 creator QS:P170,Q509907
Description	English: Portrait of Empress Consort Haruko (posthumously known as Empress Shoken, consort of Meiji, Emperor of Japan, 1872. Uchida Kuichi was the only photographer granted a sitting by the Emperor Meiji and in 1872 Uchida photographed the Emperor and Empress Haruko in full court dress and everyday robes (Kinoshita; Ishii and Iizawa).
Date	1872 date QS:P571,+1872-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium	Albumen silver print
Source	The Cleveland Museum of Art user:Pinkville
Other versions	Higher quality version

References edit

• Bennett, Terry. 'Early Japanese Images' (Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1996), p. 54; p. 133, fig. 129.
• Canadian Centre for Architecture; Collections Online, s.v. "Portrait of Empress consort Haruko" archive copy at the Wayback Machine
• Ishii, Ayako, and Kotaro Iizawa. 'Chronology'. In 'The History of Japanese Photography' (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003), 314.
• Kinoshita, Naoyuki. 'The Early Years of Japanese Photography'. In 'The History of Japanese Photography' (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003), 27.
• Nagasaki University Library; Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period, "Portrait of Empress Dowager Akinori", [cited 12 August 2008]
• Robinson, Bonnell D. 'Transition and the Quest for Permanence: Photographers and Photographic Technology in Japan, 1854-1880s'. In 'A Timely Encounter: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Japan' (ex. cat.; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press, 1988), p. 42, figs. 36, 37.
• Tucker, Anne Wilkes, et al. 'The History of Japanese Photography' (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003), p. 55, pl. 30.
• Worswick, Clark. 'Japan: Photographs 1854-1905' (New York: Pennwick/Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), p. 40, repr.; pp. 136, 147.

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