160905-0032 - Buddhist Monk

Buddhist monk wearing a conical sugegasa hat (菅笠) praying at a temple.

Interestingly, this image is very similar to a photograph by Japanese photographer Suizan Kurokawa (黒川 翠山, 1882–1944). The exact same subject, location and angle, but different clothes and lighting and as a result far less dramatic.

Printed on the same kind of AZO paper as the Kurokawa print, but on stock that was produced from 1926 through the 1940s, while the Kurokawa print was printed on stock produced between 1918 and 1930.