Uchida Kuichi was a pioneering Japanese photographer from Nagasaki. He was greatly respected as a portrait photographer and was the only photographer granted a sitting to photograph the Emperor Meiji.
View of Nagasaki Japan, 1872
A contemporary ukiyo-e print depicts a beautiful woman looking at a carte de visite with Uchida's stamp.
Portrait of Empress Consort Haruko (posthumously known as Empress Dowager Shōken, consort of Emperor Meiji). Albumen silver print by Uchida Kuichi, 1872.
Mutsuhito , posthumously honored as Emperor Meiji , was the 122nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Reigning from 1867 to his death, he was the first monarch of the Empire of Japan and presided over the Meiji era. His reign is associated with the Meiji Restoration, a series of rapid changes that witnessed Japan's transformation from an isolationist, feudal state to an industrialized world power.
Portrait by Uchida Kuichi, 1873
Nakayama Yoshiko (mother of Emperor Meiji)
Emperor Meiji wearing the sokutai, 1872
Emperor Meiji receives Dutch Minister-Resident Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek in 1868.