About This Image

Inscription on case explains that these boys were employed by a firm or shop called Kondo-ho, and gives location, date and photographer information.

Names of boys noted: top row from left:

Manshichi, age 20; Kamekichi, age 18; Tsunekichi, age 17

Bottom row from left:

Unosuke, age 17; Gonkichi, age 15; Sejiro, age 17.

In original Kirri wood case.

Kodera had two studios in Tokyo: Shimabara-yukaku and Kitano Jinja. Portraits in Sepia, p. 246.