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*''Born: [[1834]]''
Felice Beato was an Italian photographer who sojourned in Japan in the 1860s to 1880s. A great many of the most famous photos of scenes in [[Bakumatsu]] and [[Meiji period]] Japan were taken by Beato.
Beato first arrived in Japan in [[1863]], and published his ''[[Photographic Views of Japan]]'' five years later. In [[1877]], he sold his photography business in Japan to the Austrian photographer Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Ratenicz and his German partner Hermann Andersen. He departed Japan for Burma in [[1884]].
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==References==
*Gallery labels, British Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/20701713430/in/dateposted-public/]
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