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Portrait of the Empress Shōken

Photographer unknown1890

Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art
Washington, DC, United States

Portrait of the Meiji Empress Shōken, presented to Alice Rooevelt by Empress Shōken

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Title: Portrait of the Empress Shōken
Creator: Photographer unknown
Date: 1890
Location: Japan
Physical Dimensions: Two signed photographic portraits : in elaborately carved frames, 44 x 34 cm. ; images 28 x 21 cm.
Accession: The Alice Roosevelt Longworth Collection of Photographs from the 1905 Taft Mission to Asia, 1905, Gift of Joanna Sturm, 2009

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Empress Shōken Japan Photograph Portrait Tradition