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Three Maiko posing on an engawa [veranda], c. 1885. Hand-coloured albumen silver print.

Adolfo Farsari (1841 – 1898) was an Italian photographer based in Yokohama, Japan. He had a brief military career, including service in the American Civil War, but was primarily a successful entrepreneur and commercial photographer in Japan. His photographic work was highly regarded in his own time, particularly his hand-coloured portraits and landscapes, which he sold mostly to foreign residents and visitors to the country. His studio was one of Japan's largest and most prolific commercial photographic firms and it had an important influence on the development of photography in the country. With Felice Beato and Baron Raimund von Stillfried Farsari was one of the most important foreign photographers in 19th century Japan and his was the last notable foreign-owned photographic studio in Japan.

Three Maiko posing on an engawa [veranda]. Hand-coloured albumen silver print, c.1885.