Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Seated Woman (Kusakabe Kimbei).jpg

Seated Woman

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Original – Hand-colored silver albumen photograph taken by Kusakabe Kimbei depicting a Meiji-period woman wearing a kimono with an underkimono patterned with chrysanthemums

Reason: This photograph, taken during Meiji-era Japan by renowned photographer Kusakabe Kimbei, is a rare historical photograph that provides users with a color image of early Meiji-era dress in Japan. The picture is of historic nature and is of high quality, especially for its era. The use of hand-coloring by the photographer accentuates the value of the image, providing viewers with a glimpse of what life looked like in Japan without having the whole photograph be in black-and-white or Sepia. As confirmed by the Getty Museum (which verifies the authenticity of the photograph and holds the photograph in its collection) the photograph is in the public domain. Its encyclopedic value is clear; the article specifically had described patterns of chyrsanthemums on Meiji-era dress, but lacked depictions of any such clothing until the picture was added to the article. Digital manipulation was limited to cropping to remove faded edges.
Articles in which this image appears: Japanese clothing during the Meiji period
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle
Creator: Kusakabe Kimbei (1841–1934)

Support as nominator – — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 05:25, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – The image needs to be touched up and restored. It has lots of spots, visible at full size. Bammesk (talk) 23:18, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:27, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]