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Kango Bearers
Felice Beatoabout 1868
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Focusing on traditional Japanese life, Beato offered a rare visual record of the last years of feudal Japan before modernization began in the Meiji period in 1871. The kango was then a popular mode of transportation. It was replaced by the rickshaw, a two-wheeled cart pulled by a runner, in the early 1870s.
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Details
- Title: Kango Bearers
- Creator: Felice Beato
- Date Created: about 1868
- Location Created: Japan
- Physical Dimensions: 19.5 × 25.5 cm (7 11/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
- Type: Print
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Hand-colored albumen silver print
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 2007.26.201.5
- Culture: English
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Partial gift from the Wilson Centre for Photography
- Creator Display Name: Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909)
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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