1910 - Rice Cake Seller in Front of a Shanty Door - Folklore Life History - Japanese Colonial Period Joseon Customs

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1910 - Rice Cake Seller in Front of a Plank Door - Folklore & Daily Life - Joseon Customs during the Japanese Colonial Period Real Photo Postcard of Joseon Customs during the Japanese Colonial Period — Kakiuri (Joseon Customs Rice Cake Seller) Publisher/Period: Published by Keijo Ilbo-sa and other Imperial Telegraphy affiliates (Produced during the early to mid-Japanese Colonial Period) Condition: Top-tier original silver gelatin print, corners and print surface in perfect preservation Features: Not a studio-staged photograph, but a highly rare documentary historical resource capturing the actual wooden walls with ink inscriptions (graffiti) and the raw atmosphere of the streets at that time Historical Value and Characteristics (The Smoking Gun) Decisive evidence of '100% on-site real snapshots' rather than staging (Ink inscriptions on walls) This is on a completely different level from the fake customs photographs taken by Japanese photographers during the Japanese Colonial Period, who used studio backdrops to distort or adapt Joseon. The actual wooden house walls that serve as the background of the photo still clearly show the ink inscriptions (traces of writing and graffiti) left by people of that era, serving as a unique smoking gun that proves the vivid, unprocessed reality of Joseon streets in the 1910s–1930s. Perfect folklore and daily life details, like opening a Time capsule The deep gaze and wrinkles of the female rice cake seller, wearing a white jeogori and skirt with neatly combed hair, sitting leaning against a plank door. The textures of the rice cakes and daily necessities loosely piled in straw and cloth within the basket are preserved in high definition on the silver bromide print, holding platinum-like value in the study of costume history and folklore. Scarcity with top-tier preservation A physical postcard where the fine grain and tonal gradation unique to the photographic paper have survived perfectly without discoloration or corner damage for over 100 years; it is a top-tier Masterpiece that is difficult to find in the domestic or international collector markets.

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